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Virginia Liston was among the blues performers whose profession was spent primarily in Dark vaudeville. She actually is said to possess gotten her begin in display business around 1912 in Washington D.C. In 1920 she wedded entertainer Sam Grey and toured with him within a husband-and-wife group known as Liston …

Charlie Irvis made a solid impression in early stages but faded out from the ’30s. He began as a youngsters playing in an area boy’s music group. Irvis was with Lucille Hegamin’s Blue Fire Syncopators (1920-1921), gigged with Willie “The Lion” Smith, and that which was then the extremely early …

Very little is well known on the subject of pianist Porter Grainger even though he appeared about many records in the 1920’s, mainly backing blues and vaudeville singers. Not really regarded as that great a pianist, Grainger’s main popularity during his life time was like a composer for musical displays. …

Feminine blues singer Freddy Dark brown cut just simply two edges in Chicago, 1929. It really is unidentified whether she in fact resided in Chicago or not really, and in addition unclear if she performed the piano herself on her behalf two Tx style-influenced blues tracks, “Elevated In The Alley” …

Natural cotton Pickers was the universal music group name that Brunswick Information applied to its little jazz music group recordings manufactured in 1922-1923, 1924-1925, and again in 1929. We were holding intended to contend with well-known dance records released on other brands by groups such as for example Ladd’s Dark …

The Louisville, Kentucky-based Dixieland Jug Blowers were among the first jug bands to record. Led by violinist Clifford Hayes and jug participant Earl McDonald, the Chicago-based group, which highlighted clarinetist Johnny Dodds, still left a legacy of twenty-three monitors, including “Boodle Am Tremble”, “Memphis Tremble” and “Skit, Skat, Doodle-Do”, documented …

Kelly Harrell was a near-legendary nation balladeer through the 1920s, when he lower greater than a dozen tracks for Victor and OKeh. He was also a gifted songwriter whose music was included in other performers, including Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Stoneman, in his personal lifetime. Harrell was created in the …

Billiken Johnson can be an interesting amount in early blues background, since he didn’t sing or play a musical instrument, yet he recorded at least 6 edges in the later ’20s. Johnson’s exclusive skill was his capability to imitate teach whistles and offer other vocal results, which produced him a …

From Fats Waller and “yo’ feet’s too large” to nation blues and you’re “standin’ in the crossroads” wasn’t really such an excellent range, at least if one was to guage from a number of the character types who were area of the inner workings from the engine. Journeyman guitarist Bobby …

B.F. (Frank) Shelton is well known for four edges he documented for Victor Information at the popular Bristol Classes in Bristol, TN, on July 29, 1927. Three songs (“Darling Cora,” “Pretty Polly,” “Oh Molly Dear”) presented modal banjo tunings and an eerie, archaic audio only slightly much less dark and …