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Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Vintage Fiddle Music 1927-1935: Blues, Jazz, Stomps, Shuffles & Rags
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Product Description Two dozen swingin' sides of blues, jazz, stomps, shuffles and rags that show why the fiddle became known as the "devil's box"! Everything from Mississippi string bands to Beale Street blues to South Side jazz is here; includes Ruckus Juice and Chittlin' Memphis Jug Band; Lazy Lazy River Mississippi Sheiks; Moanin' and Groanin' Blues Peg Leg Howell & His Gang; If You Can't Make It Easy, Sweet Mama Dixieland Jug Blowers; Get Up off That Jazzophone Bubbling-Over Five; Good Old Turnip Greens Bo Chatman; Throw Me in the Alley Peetie Wheatstraw & His Blue Blowers, and more. Amazon.com's Best of 2001 A fantastic collection of old-time music, "Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!" captures vintage fiddle music at that rare crossroads where the blues, jazz, and something that would one day be called folk were all in their infancy. For fiddle virtuosos performing between 1927 and 1935, quite simply, anything goes. Banjo Ikey Robinson's red hot "My Four Reasons" swings with humor and pizzazz, the State Street Boys' "Rustlin' Man" features the down-and-out blues vocals and fiddling of Big Bill Broonzy , and the Mississippi Sheiks' jazzy, but blues-inspired "Lazy Lazy River" musically straddles both sides of the Mason Dixon Line. For many listeners, the more esoteric tracks will stick out: Bo Chatman (a.k.a. double-entendre blues king Bo Carter) is heard fiddling behind Alec Johnson's goofy vocals on "Sister Maud Mule" (and in the spotlight on his own "Good Old Turnip Greens"); the Georgia Yellow Hammers' "G Rag" is the product of a then-rare integrated recording session; and Abrew's Portuguese Instrumental Trio performs "Cabo Verdranos Peca Nove" with incredible fiddling on what must be one of the first attempts at a crossover world-music disc. It's all here--great remastering, in-depth liner notes, and wonderful playing. Each release from Old Hat--Violin, Sing the Blues for Me and Music from the Lost Provinces--feels definitive, and this gem is certainly no different. --Jason Verlinde [ ^Top ] Discs and Tracks Disc 1 [ ^Top ] |