"Vaudeville Blues" How Come You Do Me Like You Do - CD4

The Blues' rural beginnings in the last years of the 19th Century was followed by an early urbanized form, termed later in the 20th Century as 'Classic Blues'. This did not adequately describe recordings which ranged from the truly classic to material more at home on the music hall and vaudeville stages...
...Blues, of course, was a hybrid - stemming from such sources as the field songs of the Deep South, tent show songs, and the vaudeville and music hall performers of early Twenties ragtime - virtually every Classic singer owed a debt to music hall and cabaret. As singer and critic George Melly put it, ...there is a proportion of the worthless, the mechanical, the contrived, but there is also a gaiety, a vitality, a sense of good time. Improbably, Vaudeville Blues was dominated by female singers, some of them staggeringly charismatic and self-confident. Its peak of popularity ran from 1920 until the middle of the decade. Only a handful of artists continued making records after the onslaught of the Great Depression. Here is a selection of the best, expertly compiled and annotated by historian and enthusiast Max Haymes.(Allmusic)
trax:
1. Haven'’t Seen No Whiskey - Jackson Joe Williams 2. Mean Old Master Blues - Bessie Tucker 3. Stingaree Blues - Esther Bigeou 4. Waco Texas Blues - Mary H. Bradford 5. Hey Lawdy Mama - Papa Harvey Hull 6. Find Me At The Greasy Spoon - Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra 7. Scoop It - Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra 8. Mama, Let Me Scoop For You - Blind Willie McTell 9. Bow Legged Papa - Butterbeans & Susie 10. How Can I Miss You When I'’ve Got Dead Aim - Ida Cox With Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders 11. Railroad Bill - Will Bennett 12. Hard Headed Mama - Martha Copeland 13. Git’ Goin' - Viola McCoy 14. He May Be Your Man - Lucille Hegamin & Her Blue Flame Syncopators 15. Devil In The Lion'’s Den - Sam Collins 16. Uncle Sam Blues - Edna Hicks 17. Everybody Mess Around - Alberta Hunter 18. Twistin’' Your Stuff - Barbecue Bob 19. Don’'t Shake It No More - Trixie Smith 20. Fourth Street Mess Around - Memphis Jug Band 21. How Come You Do Me Like You Do - Rosa Henderson 22. Beat You Doing It - Clifford Gibson 23. Slow Up Papa - Viola McCoy 24. Honey You'’re Going Too Fast - Barbecue Bob 25. Penitentiary Bound Blues - Rosa Henderson 26. Death Cell Blues - Blind Willie McTell
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