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Robert Nighthawk – Bricks In My Pillow
Robert Nighthawk – Bricks In My Pillow Pearl PL-11 [United Series] LP Record Robert Nighthawk recorded for United at its first day of sessions and two of United’s first five releases were by “Robert Nighthawk and his Nighthawks Band”. He had a national hit in late ’49 on Aristocrat and perhaps United envisioned Nighthawk as…
Art Hodes – Friar’s Inn Revisited
Art Hodes – Friar’s Inn Revisited Delmark DE 215 Compact Disc
George Lewis – Hello Central…Give Me Doctor Jazz
George Lewis – Hello Central…Give Me Doctor Jazz Delmark DD 201 Compact Disc (2001) This album contains definitive 1953 recordings of clarinetist George Lewis who led the most authentic New Orleans jazz band. It’s a sound that led via English Skiffle groups to Rock music of the ’60s. It’s a New Orleans Brass Band that’s…
Big Joe Williams; J.D. Short – Stavin’ Chain Blues
Big Joe Williams & J.D. Short – Stavin’ Chain Blues Delmark 609 …Joe dug into a patched and scuffed cardboard guitar case, rummaged through a spare shirt and old recording contracts and came out with a handbill with his photo on it to prove that he was “the” Joe Williams of Columbia Records fame. Once…
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – Look On Yonder’s Wall
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – Look On Yonder’s Wall Delmark DE 614 Compact Disc The human voice has rarely been as movingly rich as that of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup nor has the human experience been so thoroughly mirrored as in the simple blues poetry of this big and gentle man from Mississippi. Some have…
