CD Details
- Released: March 14, 1997
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Document
Tracks:
- 1.Macon Blues
- 2.Fat Mouth Blues
- 3.I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always)
- 4.Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
- 5.You Can't Guess How Good It Is ('Till You Try It for Yourself)
- 6.Those Creeping Sneaking Blues
- 7.I Need a Good Man Bad
- 8.I Can't Be Worried Long
- 9.You Used to Be Sugar Blues
- 10.Blue and by Myself
- 11.Strange Woman's Dream
- 12.Sweet Baby, Goodbye!
- 13.Chicago Blues
- 14.No One Can Toddle Like My Cousin Sue
- 15.Awful Moanin' Blues
- 16.Ramblin' (Till I Find My Lovin' Man)
- 17.Four Flushing Papa
- 18.Gonna Get Somebody's Daddy (Just Wait and See)
- 19.A Little Kind Treatment (Is Exactly What I Need)
- 20.Broad Way Blues
- 21.Moanful Wailin' Blues
- 22.Florida Flood Blues
- 23.Breath and Britches Blues
- 24.Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
- 25.Loud and Wrong
Product Description:
Full title: Female Blues Singers: Complete Recorded Works: Vol. 6 (1922-28).
Personnel: Ruby Gowdy, Madam Hurd Fairfax, Betty Gray, Hattie Garland, Miss Frankie, Georgia Gorham, Lillian Goodner, Dorothy Everetts (vocals); Bob Fuller (alto saxophone); Bubber Miley (cornet); Eubie Blake, Andrades Lindsay, Mabel Horsey, Bill Pearson , Steve Lewis , Louis Hooper, Porter Grainger (piano).
Audio Remasterer: Gerhard Wessely.
Liner Note Author: Dr. David Evans .
Recording information: Chicago, IL (??/??/1922-12/17/1928); N.Y.C., NY (??/??/1922-12/17/1928); New Orleans, LA (??/??/1922-12/17/1928).
A wide variety of obscure singers have their entire and brief recording careers reissued on this CD, the sixth of 14 discs in this fascinating series. Included are two songs apiece by Dorothy Everetts, Madam Hurd Fairfax (who was really a semi-opera singer performing spirituals), Georgie Gorham, and Betty Gray, four songs by Miss Frankie (including two numbers in which she is backed by pianist Eubie Blake), three by Hattie Garland, six from Lillian Goodner (these are among the better selections including two numbers that have background work from cornetist Bubber Miley), three by Ruby Gowdy, and a lone performance by Cry Baby Godfrey. Styles range from vaudevillian to low-down blues, and, in general, the rarely-heard performances hold one's interest. ~ Scott Yanow
