"Vaudeville Blues" A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time - CD3

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. Salty Dog Blues - Papa Charlie Jackson 2. Salty Dog - Clara Smith 3. Salty Dog - Kokomo Arnold 4. Mister Man Pt 2 - Papa Charlie Jackson 5. Spread Yo’ Stuff - Daisy Martin & Five Jazz Bell Hops 6. Black Gypsy Blues - Furry Lewis 7. Eagle Rock Me Papa - Sara Martin & Clarence William's Blue Five 8. Sally Long Blues - Virginia Liston 9. If You Don'’t Believe I Love You - Essie Whitman, The Jazz Masters 10. Bull-Doze Blues - Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas 11. Trouble Hearted Blues - Ishman Bracey 12. Stealin'’ Stealin’' - Memphis Jug Band 13. Squawkin'’ The Blues - Edna Hicks 14. Hard Luck Blues - Edna Hicks,Porter Grainger's Sawin' Three 15. Drop Down Mama - Sleepy John Estes 16. Gulf Coast Blues - Monette Moore 17. Poor Me Blues - Edna Hicks,Porter Grainger's Sawin' Three 18. Cryin'’ Blues - Hound Head Henry 19. Poor Me - Charley Patton 20. M&O Blues No.3 (My Baby Called The Police) - Walter Davis 21. Booze & Blues - Ma Rainey & Her Georgia Jazz Band 22. Tom Rushen Blues - Charley Patton 23. A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time - George Williams 24. A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time - Stovepipe No. 1 25. Blues Ain'’t Nothin'’ Else But! - Ida Cox w. Lovie Austen & Her Blues Serenaders 26. Preachin'’ Blues - Robert Johnson
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