About Hidden Charms Records First LP release

Hey folks! Here’s some info about the First *HIDDEN CHARMS records* LP “to be released in early 2012 titled “EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK vol. 1:

“Every Day in the Week” is not a study into a certain region or style of pre-war African-American music. This LP merely brings together a group of damn fine Jazz and Blues recordings that make for a musically divers and interesting listening experience. The 14 superb songs presented were recorded between 1927 And 1933 and feature the cream of the crop of Barrelhouse piano, Country Blues, Jug Bands, Hokum groups, Hot Jazz orchestras and Medicine Show songsters ……….yes people, all the good stuff !!! 

Appearing on the record are pioneering Chicago guitar maestro’s Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red both accompanied by pianist and future “Father of Gospel” Georgia Tom Dorsey. There’s amazing Jug Bands recorded in one of the hotbeds of 1920s and 30’s Jug Band music Memphis, Tennessee. Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers do their superb “Viola Lee Blues” and Jack Kelly’s South Memphis Jug Band can be heard on the rare Highway No. 61 Blues #2. From Chicago there’s raw Gut-bucket Jazz by King Oliver’s nephew Dave Nelson backed by his Paramount Serenaders.  And there’s some mean and dirty washboard Jazz performed by The Memphis Night Hawks featuring legendary trombonist Roy Palmer. Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley perform their beautiful “Every Day Of The Week” and tough female blues singer Lucille Bogan complains about her no good man on “Pot Hound Blues” with Cow Cow Davenport providing the excellent piano part. For more Piano Blues we turn our heads to Piano Mecca St Louis where Barrelhouse kings Henry Brown and twin brothers Pinetop and Lindberg resided. Bobby Leecan’s Need-More Band do their all-time dance classic Washboard Cut-Out, a joyous tour de force of masterful String picking. James “Boodle-it” Wiggins, possibly from Texas does the very first version of a song made famous by Little Richard.  Kansas City Kitty’s ‘You Got That Stuff’ is about bootleg-liquor, while Bumble Bee Slim declares his love for them good old Greasy Greens.

All recordings have been transferred directly from the original rare 78 rpm records and were expertly cleaned, hopefully providing you an enjoyable listening experience. Some of the recordings on this LP have been reissued before, but I think not often sounding as fresh as presented here.

Alex Van Der Tuuk’s liner notes are filled with new and original research, which will be of interest to the casual reader as well as the hardcore blues fans and scholars/researchers.  I hope the newly provided info will lead to more information and discoveries about some of the featured artists.

I’ll keep ya’ll updated on the release.

Rene

Here’s the track list for the LP

Side A.

Harum Scarums - Come On In (Ain't nobody here but me)  -Crown  1931
Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band - You Rascal You  -Vocalion  1930                                   
Bobbie Leecan's Need-More Band - Wash-board Cut Out  -Victor  1927
Bumble Bee Slim - Greasy Greens  -Vocalion  1932      
Memphis Night Hawks - Come On In, Baby  -Vocalion  1932  
Kansas City Kitty and Georgia Tom - You Got That Stuff  -Vocalion  1930
Jack Kelly & his South Memphis Jug Band - Highway 61 Blues No.2  -Banner  1933  
       

Side B.

Boodle-It Wiggins - Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In  -Paramount  1928
Henry Brown - Stomp 'Em Down To The Bricks  -Brunswick  1929
Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Every Day in the Week Blues  -Columbia  1928
Lucille Bogan - Pot Hound Blues  -Brunswick  1929
Cannon's Jug Stompers - Viola Lee Blues  -Victor  1928
Nelson's Paramount Serenaders - Nelson Blues  -Paramount  1927

Pinetop & Lindberg – 4-11-44  -Victor  1932