| Voice Of The Blues | 4 |
Apparently I’ve made an enemy over in Amsterdam. Prewarblues.org was under “attack” sometime over the weekend – which is pretty lame. I mean i know I took some time off, but that’s no reason to try to crash my site…right?
Irene Scruggs won a talent contest for Okeh which allowed her to record a handful of sides for that label and also allowed her to travel around as part of several groups as well as forming her own band in St.Louis. For a relatively unknown blues singer she recorded with some of the best in the industry: Lonnie Johnson, King Oliver and Clarence Williams. The first track here Worried Love is a duet with Johnny Hodges on piano – and it’s quite fun in the mood of Lonnie Johnon’s duets with Victoria Spivey. The second track is her with a fantastic, but unknown guitar player -in a much more standarded blues number “The Voice of the Blues.”
Irene Scruggs – Worried Blues Pt. 1 (1929)
Irene Scruggs – Voice of the Blues (1930)
++
4 Comments so farLeave a comment
filename: Worried Blues
mp3 tag: The Worried Man Blues
name mentioned in text: Worried Love
I’m confused…
Probably “Worried Love Pt 1” based on google searches…
Looks like she recorded “Worried Love Pt 1” and “Worried Love Pt 2” under the pseudonym “Dixie Nolan” with Johnnie Hardge (not Hodges as above). Look here for more info: http://tinyurl.com/3a4r8z
i think our host has the wrong record linked. The Worried Man Blues – Sam Collins with John D. Fox is what i got from the top link.
Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>