Name: Rare Paramount Blues (1926-1929)
Brand: Document (USA)
SKU: 757931
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Rare Paramount Blues

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Album: Rare Paramount Blues (1926-1929)
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mama's Angel Child - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
2)	All Birds Look Like Chicken to Me - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
3)	Cottonfield Blues
4)	Red River Blues - Charlie "Dad" Nelson
5)	Coon Can Blues
6)	Mississippi Strut
7)	Cleveland Stomp
8)	Scoville Ave. Blues
9)	Michigan Shoe Blues
10)	Traveling Daddy
11)	Red Letter Blues - Ruby Paul
12)	Last Farewell Blues - Ruby Paul
13)	Duck's Yas Yas, The
14)	Smiling Blues - Jack O' Diamonds
15)	Broke Down Engine - Lonnie Clark
16)	Down in Tennessee - Lonnie Clark
17)	Hop Head Blues
18)	Iggly Oggly Blues
19)	St. Peter's Blues, Pt. 1
20)	St. Peter's Blues, Pt. 2
21)	Hometown Skiffle, Pt. 1
22)	Home Town Skiffle, Pt. 2
23)	Corrine, Corrina - Too Bad Boys
24)	Ballin' the Jack - Too Bad Boys
25)	Raised in the Alley Blues - Freddie Brown
26)	Whip It to a Jelly - Freddie Brown

Album: Rare Paramount Blues (1926-1929)
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mama's Angel Child - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
2)	All Birds Look Like Chicken to Me - Sweet Papa Stovepipe
3)	Cottonfield Blues
4)	Red River Blues - Charlie "Dad" Nelson
5)	Coon Can Blues
6)	Mississippi Strut
7)	Cleveland Stomp
8)	Scoville Ave. Blues
9)	Michigan Shoe Blues
10)	Traveling Daddy
11)	Red Letter Blues - Ruby Paul
12)	Last Farewell Blues - Ruby Paul
13)	Duck's Yas Yas, The
14)	Smiling Blues - Jack O' Diamonds
15)	Broke Down Engine - Lonnie Clark
16)	Down in Tennessee - Lonnie Clark
17)	Hop Head Blues
18)	Iggly Oggly Blues
19)	St. Peter's Blues, Pt. 1
20)	St. Peter's Blues, Pt. 2
21)	Hometown Skiffle, Pt. 1
22)	Home Town Skiffle, Pt. 2
23)	Corrine, Corrina - Too Bad Boys
24)	Ballin' the Jack - Too Bad Boys
25)	Raised in the Alley Blues - Freddie Brown
26)	Whip It to a Jelly - Freddie Brown

Performer Notes

Personnel: Papa Charlie Jackson (vocals, banjo); Alex Hill (vocals, piano); Paul Robinson (vocals); Bob Grant (guitar); William Ezell, Charlie Spand (piano).
In 1994, the Document label reissued 26 old-time Paramount blues recordings that originally appeared during the years 1926-1929. The word "rare" in the title of this compilation is doubly appropriate, as the artists represented here exist in the dusty margins of blues history where they have been eclipsed by more familiar names like Ma Rainey, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, Papa Charlie Jackson, Charley Patton, and Charlie Spand. With a couple of exceptions, most of the people heard on this disc are represented (along with the famous names just mentioned) on JSP's affordably priced four-CD set The Paramount Masters, and obtaining all five discs might ultimately be a really wise move. Document's edition features what must be the largest number of recordings by kazoo handler Charlie "Dad" Nelson ever assembled on one collection, in addition to uncommon examples by Freddy Brown, Ruby Paul, Lonnie Clark, Smoky Harrison, someone who went by the name of Jack O'Diamonds, the Too Bad Boys, the Paramount All-Stars (who perform authentic early skiffle music), and Sweet Papa Stovepipe, a singer from New York City who probably got the nickname by wearing a top hat and whose "All Birds Look Like Chicken to Me" taps into the minstrel tradition of the 1890s. This individual's given name was McKinley Peebles, and for obvious reasons, people mix him up with Daddy Stovepipe, also known as Johnny Watson, and Stovepipe No.1, whose less illustrious name was Sam Jones. ~ arwulf arwulf