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

[Malcolm - Venerable Music]

If I had to guess, I'd say that it is them - though it does kind of sound 
like something they just threw together. I suppose even more the reason to 
believe it is them.
I uploaded a mp3 to the Venerable server if you want to take a listen - 
http://www.venerablemusic.com/The%20St.%20Louis%20Blues.mp3

The Down Hearted Blues side is guitar/vocal only.

Malcolm

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg Kimball" <gdkimball at cox.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Puckett & McMichen on a Race Record?


> 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>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:40 PM
> 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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