Legends Mix
Today's mixed bag of music is the result of just some random thumbing through the database that I keep in an attempt to stay organized with my music collection. The strange thing is, that I often have the impression that getting organized is an awful way to forget what I have and random browsing helps me re-disovering what I have and seem to have lost from my memory.
The findings of today include Wee Bea Booze, of whom I found out that all biographies on her wrongly assumed that that was the stage name of Muriel Nichols. I found that on the web page of the Red Saunders Research Foundation, probably the best site on the Chicago music scene of the forties and fifties - and then Bea Booze never was connected to the Chicago scene. (I took the time to correct the Wikipedia page on Bea Booze her with that information).
And also a great blues from as far back as 1928 - that shows that "Race music" - African American music - always has been exciting and highly original.
Playlist
- Buddy Johnson Orch - You Got It Made
- Dinah Washington - West Side Baby
- Big Joe Turner - Low Down Dog
- Ray Charles - St.Pete Florida
- Homesick James Williamson - Wartime
- Wee Bea Booze - So Good
- Red Callender Trio - Red Light
- Helen Humes - Blues With Helen
- Harlem Hamfats - Keep It Swinging Round And Round
- Benny Goodman feat. Jimmy Ricks - Walkin' With The Blues
- Bull Moose Jackson - Memphis Gal
- Wild Bill Moore - Bubbles
- Wynonie Harris - Triflin' Woman
- Washboard Sam & Big Bill Broonzy - Little City Woman
- Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Big Jim Wynn - Goofin' Off
- Count Basie - Every Tub
- Eddie Chamblee - Blue Steel
- Sonny Thompson - Backyard Affair
- Wild Bill Moore - Burnt Toast