Roots and Rhythms
Wednesday August 30th, 2017 with Retro Renny
Rags to rags. The riches in rags: jazz rags, jug rags, string band rags, guitar rags, fiddle rags, blues rags and more.
All rags but no ragtime.
Twelfth Street Rag LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS HOT SEVEN - King Louis - ‘27 OKeh Records/’05 Proper Records |
Beaver Slide Rag "PEG LEG" HOWELL & HIS GANG - Violin, Sing the Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949 - '27 Columbia Records/'99 Old Hat Enterprises |
Madison Street Rag GUS CANNON & HIS JUG STOMPERS - The Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers - '27 Paramount Records/'05 JSP Records |
L and N Rag ALEX HOOD'S RAILROAD BOYS - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 - '30 Vocalion Records/'95 Yazoo Records |
Georgia Rag BLIND WILLIE McTELL - The Classic Recordings 1927-1940 - ’31 Columbia/OKeh Records/’03 JSP Records |
Hawkins Rag GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS with RILEY PUCKETT & CLAYTON McMICHEN - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - '34 Columbia Records/'01 Proper Records |
Jug Rag THE BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS - White Country Blues: A Lighter Shade Of Blue 1926 – 1938 - '35 Vocalion Records/'93 Sony Music Entertainment |
Barn Dance Rag BILL BOYD & HIS COUNTRY RAMBLERS - Doughboys, Playboys And Cowboys – The Golden Years Of Western Swing: Eyes Of Texas - '35 Bluebird Records/'99 Proper Records |
Steel Guitar Rag BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS - Take Me Back To Tulsa: Get With It - '36 Brunswick Records/ '05 Proper Records |
Panhandle Rag LEON McAULIFFE & HIS WESTERN SWING BAND - Hillbilly Fever: Legends Of Western Swing - '49 Columbia Records/'95 Rhino Records |
Black Mountain Rag ROY ACUFF & HIS SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS - The Essential Roy Acuff 1936-1949 - '49 Columbia Records/'92 Sony Music Entertainment |
Guitar Rag MERLE TRAVIS - Guitar Rags & A Too Fast Past - ’50 Capitol Records/’94 Bear Family Records |
Johnson Rag AMOS MILBURN - Rockin' And Drinkin' - '50 Aladdin Records/'12 Jasmine Records |
T-Bone Rag SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT - Swing West! Volume 2: Guitar Slingers - '51 Capitol Records/'99 Razor & Tie Records |
Guitar Rag EARL HOOKER - Two Bugs And A Roach - '53 unknown label, unissued/'90 Arhoolie Records |
Locust Hill Rag JENKS “TEX” CARMAN “THE DIXIE COWBOY” - Chippeha! The Essential Dixie Cowboy (1947-57) - '52 Capitol Records/'98 John Fahey's Revenant |
Steel Guitar Rag IKE & TINA TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM - I Like Ike! The Best Of Ike Turner - '61 Sue Records/'94 Rhino Records |
Mama-Less Rag LARRY JOHNSON with JOHN HAMMOND - Midnight Hour Blues - '71/'95 Biograph Records |
Feeling a little rough and ragged after Barnstorm.
8:10 PM, August 30th, 2017