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Various - Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square Present : 1925 Songs


2 x CD: £21.99

Label: Tompkins Square

Release date: 19.06.2026

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Dick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the development of jazz, blues and early country music. Extensive notes by Grand Ole Opry photo archivist, guitarist and writer of books, Cameron Knowler

Track Listing


CD1

1.Cow Cow Blues - Dora Carr

2.The Drinker's Child - Rosa Lee Carson

3.Go Down, Moses - Wheat Street Female Quartet

4.Fisher's Hornpipe and Opera Reel - Wm. B. Houchens and J.M. Houchin

5.Hatchet Head Blues - Old Southern Jug Band

6.Sherman Valley - Bascom Lamar Lunsford

7.Cripple Creek - Tweedy Brothers

8.Kater Street Rag - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra

9.Peculiar - Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans

10.Drop That Sack - Charlie Jackson

11.Hot Hot Hottentot - Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band

12.Suitcase Blues - Hersal Thomas

13.All I Want is That Pure Religion - Deacon L.J. Bates

14.Sailing on Lake Pontchartrain - Seminole Syncopators

15.Cacklin' Hen - Osey Helton

16.Royal Clog - Ernest Helton

CD 2

1.Gue Gue Solingae - Dr. James Roach

2.American and Spanish Fandango - R.B. Smith & S.J. Allgood

3.Washboard Blues - Hitch's Happy Harmonists

4.Mr. Johnson's Blues - Lonnie Johnson

5.Grandpa's Spells - Charles Creath's Jazz-o-Maniacs

6.How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim - Ida Cox

7.Davenport Blues - Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers

8.Struttin' The Blues- Clifford's Louisville Jug Band

9.The Fox Chase (Reel) - Homer Davenport & Young Brother

10.Salty Dog - Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders

11.Jambled Blues - Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra

12.Dogwood Mountain - Land Norris

13.Stomp Off - Let's Go - New Orleans Owls

14.Mixing Them Up in C - Sylvester Weaver

15.Gettin' Told - Mound City Blue Blowers

16.Banjo Rag - Chauncey C. Lee

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