[78-L] Puckett & McMichen on a Race Record?

[Gregg Kimball]

Malcolm,

This is intriguing.  I checked Wayne Daniel's book Pickin' on Peachtree, but 
no mention of Puckett and MvMichen recording with her.  Puckett and McMichen 
were familiar with the material.  According to Daniel, they performed "St. 
Louis Blues" on radio as members of the Home Town Boys, a group that 
broacast over WSB Atlanta from 1922 to 1926. McMichen led the group, and, as 
was his style, mixed old-time material with popular and jazz numbers. 
Puckett also recorded a few solo sides that are decidedly bluesy.

We know what McMichen and Puckett sounded like together in that period. 
What does the aural evidence tell you?

Gregg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: [78-L] Correction, Re: Puckett & McMichen on a Race Record?


> Gid Tanner made the next master, with unknown accompaniment, and Puckett 
> and
> McMichen recorded on the same day, but not necessarily in the same time 
> period
> since Smith's Sacred Singers and the Seventh Day Adventists Choir account 
> for 9
> masters in between. This doesn't necessarily that everyone recorded in the
> exact sequence of assigned numbers, I suppose. The Columbia Books just say
> "guitar" for "Downhearted Blues" and "violin & guitar" for St. Louis 
> Blues, and
> then piano for the next two (unissued) sides. Atlanta, November 3/26. Note 
> that
> on a subsequent recording trip the following April, Puckett and McMichen
> recorded Downhearted Blues with their own accompaniment, unissued.
>
> dl
>
> Malcolm - Venerable Music wrote:
>> Hey Everyone - I just picked up a copy of Columbia-14175, Daisy Douglas 
>> (actually Virginia Childs), The St. Louis Blues / Down Hearted Blues. I 
>> had heard that Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen are actually the 
>> musicians that accompany her? I looked up the credit in both Tony 
>> Russell's book as well as Godrich & Dixon and sure enough, both groups 
>> were in the studio that day & the matrix numbers are very close. 
>> Unfortunately, G&D lists the accompanying musicians as unknown. Does 
>> anyone know for sure? Just wondering before I stick my foot in my mouth 
>> somewhere down the road!
>> Thanks,
>> Malcolm
>>
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