| Stavin’ Chain | |
Going back to the request from yesterday, I know handful of people did Jockey Blues, but I haven’t found a female singing it, any ideas? Richard Silverstien has a good run-down of traditional music blogs up at his site (which also features world music and a keen political sense) he also has some kind words about Honey and parts of an interview with me up.
While looking for the long-lost horse blues song I did stumble upon Jazz Gillium’s Stavin’ Chain which was recorded fairly late in Gillium career so it doesn’t feature much of his signature harmonica sound as I would like, but it does show Gillium exploring other forms of blues while keeping the same rhythm and voice of his early work.
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I think the correct spelling is “Gillum”… Or are there alternate spellings?
It looks like Margaret Thornton did a version of Jockey Blues.
“That the blues vocalist Margaret Thornton recorded only one song in her life is, unfortunately, a fact that is off by only half; the correct number is two, but in terms of quality impact, it might as well have been dozens. Her recordings of the tunes “Texas Bound Blues” and “Jockey Blues,” cut in 1927 for the short-lived Black Patti label, are among the dozens of recordings of early female-blues artists rescued from obscurity by archivist producers such as Document’s Johnny Parth.”
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~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
good blog!
that’s a good idea.
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