Top 10 tracks for May are as follows:

1. Lilian Miller - Kitchen Blues
2. Mississippi Sheiks - West Jackson Blues
3. Sonny Boy Williamson - Decoration Day
4. The White Stripes - Take Take Take
5. Red Allen - Biffly Blues
6. Blues Birdhead - Mean Low Blues
7. Zutty Singleton - King Porter Stomp
8. Glory Bernard - Cockroach Blues
9. Jelly Roll Morton - I Hate A Man Like You
10. Madelyn James - Long Time Blues

Mandy Lee and Ma Rainey made a strong showing despite being posted late in the month, I was hoping that the Funny Paper Smith songs would take off more - they are really wonderful tracks. Two mixes should be going up this week for donators - the Volume One Mix and a post-war blues mix as well as some other surprises.

Jessie Derrick was a rare bird - a blues singer based out of L.A and backed by a fantastic New Orleans style jazz band. There is a since of urgency and passion in the blues track “If You’ll Come Back To Hollywood” that is so hard to capture on record (in the pre-war era I can only think of Louise Johnson having so much energy on record). This recording is pretty rough, it’s very scratchy - but still loud and it’s hard if not impossible to make out any of the lyrics - but the energy and passion of the music comes through despite the poor condition of the side.

Jessie Derrick - If You’ll Come Back To Hollywood

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