1925 marked the advent of electrical recording, the dawn of the "Jazz Age", a pre-"big bang" country recording session in Asheville, and a few landmark blues recordings. Tompkins Square's new compilation brings it into focus.
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. Digital restoration by Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Jessica Thompson. Design by Clay Conder.
1. Dora Carr - Cow Cow Blues
2. Rosa Lee Carson - The Drinker's Child
3. Wheat Street Female Quartet - Go Down, Moses
4. Wm. B Houchens & J. M. Houchin - Fisher's Hornpipe and Opera Reel
5. Old Southern Jug Band - Hatchet Head Blues
6. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Sherman Valley
7. Tweedy Brothers - Cripple Creek
8. Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag
9. Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans - Peculiar
10. Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack
11. Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Hot Hot Hottentot
12. Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues
13. Deacon L.J. Bates - All I Want is That Pure Religion
14. Seminole Syncopators - Sailing on Lake Pontchartrain
15. Osey Helton - Cacklin' Hen
16. Ernest Helton - Royal Clog
17. Dr. James Roach - Gue Gue Solingaie
18. R.B. Smith & S.J. Allgood - American and Spanish Fandango
19. Hitch's Happy Harmonists - Washboard Blues
20. Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues
21. Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs - Grandpa's Spells
22. Ida Cox - How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim
23. Bix & His Rhythm Jugglers - Davenport Blues
24. Clifford's Louisville Jug Band - Struttin' The Blues
25. Homer Davenport & Young Brothers - The Fox Chase (Reel)
26. Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders - Salty Dog
27. Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra - Jambled Blues
28. Land Norris - Dogwood Mountain
29. New Orleans Owls - Stomp Off - Let's Go
30. Sylvester Weaver - Mixing Them Up in "C"
31. Mound City Blue Blowers - Gettin' Told
32. Chauncey C. Lee - Banjo Rag
