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Title: The Famous Hokum Boys Georgia Tom Dorsey
Artist: Famous Hokum Boys
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065423827
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2015-07-24
Number of Discs: 2

Hokum' was a raucous, rowdy music that nevertheless demanded good musicianship. All these sides were cut in 1930 - a testament to the popularity of Big Bill and Georgia Tom, both as single artists and as the Famous Hokum Boys. An added joy, on the session of February 5th, is Scrapper Blackwell taking time out from his partnership with Leroy Carr. As it turned out both the principals were to have successful but widely divergent musical careers. Big Bill Broonzy's career lasted well into the 1950s. He was, according to the diktats of the time, a folk singer, bluesman or jazzman. By the time he died in 1958 (of throat cancer, maybe aged 55) he was relatively prosperous and (through the folk world) well connected. Georgia Tom was Thomas Dorsey, whose professional start was playing piano at rent parties. In the mid-1920s he wrote and performed religious material alongside his secular output. In 1928 his recording of the self-composed 'It's Tight Like That' (it's as bawdy as it sounds) was a multi-million seller. In 1932, a crisis - the death of both his wife and newborn son - moved him to confine himself to the religious. When he died, aged 92, he was a leading - and revered - member of the Gospel movement.

Tracks:
1.1 Dark Hour Blues - Georgia Tom
1.2 Six Shooter Blues - Georgia Tom
1.3 Mississippi Bottom Blues - Georgia Tom
1.4 Second-Hand Woman Blues - Georgia Tom
1.5 Maybe It S the Blues - Georgia Tom
1.6 Second Hand Love - Georgia Tom
1.7 Levee Bound Blues - Georgia Tom
1.8 Gee But It S Hard - Georgia Tom
1.9 My Texas Blues - Georgia Tom
1.10 Six Shooter Blues - Georgia Tom
1.11 Pig Meat Blues - Georgia Tom
1.12 The Western Blues - Frank Brasswell
1.13 Mountain Girl Blues - Frank Brasswell
1.14 Somebody S Been Using That Thing - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.15 Black Cat Rag - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.16 Pig Meat Strut - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.17 Guitar Rag - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.18 Saturday Night Rub - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.19 Eagle Riding Papa - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.20 Papa?S Getting Hot - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.21 Nancy Jane - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.22 Nancy Jane Take 2 - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.23 That S the Way She Likes It - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.24 Do That Thing - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.25 You Can't Get Enough of That Stuff - the Famous Hokum Boys
1.26 Rollin Mill - the Famous Hokum Boys
2.1 You Got Me in This Mess - Georgia Tom
2.2 Mama S Leaving Town - Georgia Tom
2.3 Tadpole Blues - Georgia Tom
2.4 Bow Leg Baby - Georgia Tom
2.5 Then My Gal S in Town - Georgia Tom
2.6 Fish House Blues - Kansas City Kitty
2.7 Come on in - Arthur Petties
2.8 Ain't Going There No More - Arthur Petties
2.9 Pussy Cat Pussy Cat - Hannah May
2.10 What You Call That - Hannah May
2.11 Court House Blues - Hannah May
2.12 Barrel House Rag - Arthur Petties
2.13 You Do It - Arthur Petties
2.14 That Stuff I Got - Arthur Petties
2.15 Pat That Bread - Arthur Petties
2.16 Come on Mama - Arthur Petties
2.17 State Street Woman - Big Bill Broonzy
2.18 Meanest Kind of Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
2.19 I Got the Blues for My Baby - Big Bill Broonzy
2.20 Don't Mean to Mistreat You - Big Bill Broonzy
2.21 What S That I Smell - Hannah May
2.22 Terrible Operation Blues - Hannah May
2.23 Don't Leave Me Blues - Georgia Tom
2.24 Hip Shakin Strut - Big Bill Broonzy
2.25 Hokum Stomp - Big Bill Broonzy
2.26 Been Mistreated Blues - Georgia Tom

Audio Sample:
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