Down in Black Bottom

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B00000IIRV
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog No More - Turner Parrish

2. You Gonna Miss Me Blues - Freddie Nicholson

3. Freddie's Got The Blues - Freddie Nicholson

4. New Orleans Blues - Dan Stewart

5. The Right String - But The Wrong Yo Yo - Speckled Red

6. 31 Blues - Bob Call

7. You Can't Come In - Bert Mays

8. Michigan River Blues - Bert Mays

9. Humming Blues - Bat The Humming Bird

10. Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red

11. Mexico Bound Blues - Joe Dean

12. Louisiana Blues - Little Brother Montgomery

13. Frisco Hi-Ball Blues - Little Brother Montgomery

14. Down In Tennessee - Lonnie Clark

15. West Side Blues - Willie Harris

16. Broke Down Engine Blues - Lonnie Clark

17. Mean Blues - Sylvester Palmer

18. Whoopee Mama Blues - John Oscar

19. Chimes Blues - Cow Cow Davenport

20. Graveyard Blues - Turner Parrish

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful early blues, October 7, 2005

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Stephen Sossaman (San Francisco CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down in Black Bottom (Audio CD)

A terrific CD if you love this style of music. But be aware that another review here is actually about a different CD with a similar title. The songs on this have a few traditional blues complaints about women, but the performances are not by women.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Early female barrelhouse music, August 5, 2000

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down in Black Bottom (Audio CD)

This is a collection of barrelhouse blues, rags and stomps from the 20's and 30's performed by women with often accompanied by male performers. You will find few familar names. Some, for example Mary Johnson, left blues for gospel; others are pseudonyms as is Dorthy Baker a.k.a. Doretha Trowbridge. The notes attempts to identify the individuals on the recordings gives an insight into the recording business that produced these recordings.

I wish that the notes provided the lyrics. "Satan Is Busy in Knoxville" for example lists unsolved crimes in Knoxville - lyrics I know no source for.

While all tracks are worth hearing (and rehearing), I find Lucille's Bogan's "Sloppy Drunk Blues" to be the most memorable cut with its low-key haunting accompaniment by Will Ezell.