1920's, 1930's, 1940's...what do you listen to?
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Some Strutters have been mentioning that they are buying 78's lately, and this got me to thinking which of you are listening to the music of the 20's, 30's and 40's. Not genre specific...I'm just wanting to know what you're feeling.....Complete fav's of mine...RUTH ETTINGANDY KIRK AND HIS CLOUDS OF JOY (with Mary Lou Williams and Pha Terrell)CLIFF EDWARDS LONNIE JOHNSONMISSISSIPPI JOHN HURTCHARLES BROWNROY BROWNWYNONIE HARRISso what else you all got?
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Here they are from 1939, singing about how awesome
it is to smoke dope:
Cats and the Fiddle - Killin' Jive
Love them too..
I especially like 40's Vocal Groups like:
THE FOUR KNIGHTS!!!!!
Best Vocal group harmony ever (except in the 50's they went absolutely pop and really awful). Check the 40's for the realness
Also...The Red Caps are amazing!
Glad you agree...Charles Brown is close to my favorite artist period! So you lost the feel for 20's and 30's...just got tired of it? Or was it not your flavour to beging with?
overlistening is a common malady...and i definitely understand getting sick of things. anyone else you like a bunch?
This sounds incredible. Got mp3?
Hey Johnny. Yeah man I do have...and it is incredible. I'll be honest though, I really don't know how to load them up to the site. PM me if you want and I'll try to figure it out.
Amos Milburn
Ivory Joe Hunter
Louis Jordan
Nappy Brown
Roy Milton
Percy Mayfield
Floyd Dixon
also this is my main man
His works with Leroy Carr are possibly my favorite pre-war blues recordings.
Love this one, great stuff.
Blind Willie Johnson is GOSPEL!
Blind Willie McTell = G.O.A.T.
I love Duke Ellington's work from pretty much every period. I hate "Take the A train" and that kind of crowd pleasers as much as anybody else but there are so many adventurous, eerie, dreamy, agressive, grooving tracks recorded by him before 1950. Like "On a Turquoise Cloud" or of course "Caravan". Man, I listen to that very early recording of it a lot (end of twenties?)... that's so dissonant and wild, unbelievable.
I also like the old Xavier Cugat et al. Moody early latin, bolero stuff.
Dense, Hollywood style background music with all these layers of strings is kinda soothing too. Mikl??s R??zsa's "Spellbound" or "The Lost Weekend". I also like early Indian soundtrack songs.
EXCEPT this latter-day album (not exactly Slim at his best)!!
Oh, come on, you want to get into piddly-ass semantics? It's blues music with a religious viewpoint. It's not like there's a gospel choir singing or anything, it's a guy and a guitar playing blues music singing about religious matters...does the fact that it's got a religious lean make it any less good?
and
Elmore James
the elmore stuff is insane... the broomdusters were
Jean Goldkette's Band. 1926