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Moans and Blues
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Blues doesn't get more New Orleans sweet-an'-sour than when it's done by Creole Songbird Lizzie Miles. Sweet she appreciates: "I ain't gonna give you none of my jelly-roll...not to save your soul." But the sour is always in balance: "Because I've been mistreated, I feel that I could die...I'm goin' away, just to get you off my mind." This legendary herald of the blues is joined by pianist Red Camp and Tony Almerico's All Stars band at the Bourbon Street Mardi Gras Lounge. (See also COOK01183 Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me and COOK01184 Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me.)
Artist: Lizzie Miles
Released: 1956
Record Company: Cook Records
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Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me
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To me I sing love songs—sad songs—torchy songs better. Guess it's because I had such a hard, sad life from as far back as I can remember is why. Cryin' songs and dyin' songs are the substance of Creole Songbird Lizzie Miles' musical outpourings. Pianist Red Camp, banjoist Albert French and Tony Almerico's Parisian Room Band outpour right along with her in this late recording. And so we hear this scintillating blend of outpourings when "Mama don't allow no clarinet playin' in here...but Tony don't care what Mama don't allow, he's gonna play that clarinet anyhow." (Hear more of Miles' moans in COOK01182 Moans and Blues and COOK01184 Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me.)
Artist: Lizzie Miles
Released: 1956
Record Company: Cook Records
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Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me
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Even at 60, the accolades kept rolling in for Lizzie Miles: "Powerhouse singing plus some intense torching" (St. Petersburg Times), "Unlimited zest and vocal resource" (Billboard), "Can lift a commonplace tune to inspired heights" (High Fidelity). The Creole Songbird hadn't lost the "shimmy" she made in a career she had entered when she was six years old. Classic sounds of New Orleans blues. (Also check out COOK01182 Moans and Blues and COOK01183 Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me.)
Artist: Lizzie Miles
Released: 1956
Record Company: Cook Records
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K.C. Douglas: A Dead Beat Guitar and the Mississippi Blues
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K.C. Douglas was a self-designed musician, never acknowledged as a professional. Still, his music effectively addressed the concerns of many living in the South—women, money and cars—and he used a vocal and guitar style that could be aptly termed "street corner blues."
Artist: K.C. Douglas
Released: 1952
Record Company: Cook Records
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Clambake on Bourbon Street
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Polished off with a saucy French Creole chorus, Queen Mother of the Rue Royale Ms. Lizzie Miles treats you to the lustiest "All of Me" you'll ever hear. Tony Costa of the Parisian Room Band contributes a squealing clarinet that is matched only by pianist Red Camp's dazzling finger displays. And no one can touch band leader Tony Almerico's trumpeting. But one of the most special moments here is the Louis-Armstrong type grovel that Sam DeKemel spits out on "Waffle Man Blues," interspersed with his bugling blues. All together, this is stellar Dixieland jazz.
Artist: Various Artists
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Record Company: Cook Records
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The Jug Bands
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Like the blues, jug band music of the 1920s evolved into separate country and city styles. In both, however, the jug's distinctive sound sets this music apart from the blues or jazz that influenced it. This selection of breakdowns and blues embodies the music's swagger, sensitivity, and musical grandeur.
Artist: Various Artists
Released: 1963
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Sonny Terry's Washboard Band
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Blind harmonica player and singer Sonny Terry recorded a few records during the 1930s and 1940s, but found wider fame in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. This recording features a washboard band—an ensemble that includes washboard, washtub bass (a development from the African earth bow), bones, and sometimes guitar, or as heard here, harmonica.
Artist: Sonny Terry
Released: 1955
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Lead Belly's Legacy, Vol. 3: Early Recordings
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These eight songs are the fruit of Lead Belly’s first visit to New York in 1935, but the record company’s financial downfall prevented all but two—"Pigmeat" and "Black Snake Moan"—from reaching the market. This album reverses that misfortune of unavailability, and the notes provide vignettes of the bluesman’s experiences.
Artist: Lead Belly
Released: 1951
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Get on Board: Negro Folksongs by the Folkmasters
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This album by harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee, with Coyal McMahan on maracas features traditional blues songs, spirituals, and originals by the three singer-instrumentalists. Each musician has his own distinctive style, and together they create a sound that is simultaneously melancholy and joyful.
Artist: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Coyal McMahan
Released: 1952
Record Company: Folkways Records
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Brownie McGhee Blues
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Of Brownie McGhee’s expressive thumb-and-forefinger guitar style Charles Edward Smith writes, "[it] sings and rings and whangs and talks to you." Indeed it does, and his versatile voice molds each melody and verse to tell tales of the ups and downs of everyday life, from songs of friendship to a blues about pawning his guitar.
Artist: Brownie McGhee
Released: 1955
Record Company: Folkways Records
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