Topic: Smoky Babe Hottest Brand Goin

[Mr.OMuck]

I just received a new copy of this necessary record on CD
From Amazon for $6.50 and there are more copies to be had.
An almost perfect record IMHO a must have!
Get 'em while they got'em!

[uncle bud]

Wear yours out, Mr. O'M?

[Mr.OMuck]

I have the lp but have been having some recurring turntable problems of late and also wanted to have it in digital form for iPods and such.

[unezrider]

hello friend,
actually, a lot of the prestige/obc stuff is pretty reasonable on amazon. specially if your cool with grabbing something used. (i know because i went through a spell this past summer where i felt the need to own as much stuff from that label as possible.  including the above mentioned disc.)

[Parlor Picker]

I actually remember buying that outstanding LP. I was an occasional visitor to Flyright Records and the late Simon Napier recommended that album to me. I seem to remember it was reduced to 99p or ?1.99. What a recommendation! I never get tired of the outstanding playing and singing. Every true country blues fan that I played the record to has been blown away by it.

It's the real thing - not a recording star in a recording studio, but just some guy in his home playing for the hell of it.

[lindy]

Great coincidence for this thread, just last week I went back to messing around with Smoky's Boogie Woogie Rag, which JohnM taught at a past PT workshop. I know it's a cliche, but every time I go back to it I hear another level. The thing I'm always struck by is the way he goes back-and-forth between straight time and swung time--you're right, Muckster, no one swung harder in country blues.

Another reason I revisited it was one of those wake-up-in-the-morning-and-the-first-thought-is "I gotta learn that song" experiences, in this case Smoky's version of Baby Please Don't Go, which is another little masterpiece.

Man, to think of Smoky Babe and Robert Pete Williams being in the same neighborhood, or having some kind of in-person connection a la Country Negro Jam Session on Arhoolie . . .

L

[Vidal]

I've still to get this album, and get it I will as I can't believe how good his Louisiana Country Blues album is.  I stated earlier that I can't believe I have went several decades without knowing about this guy. For me, a great find and an absolute delight. In a similar vein, I just recently discovered Dan Pickett, whose 1949 Country Blues album, in general, and 99 1/2 Won't Do track, in particular, is sensational.

[Bunker Hill]

In a similar vein, I just recently discovered Dan Pickett, whose 1949 Country Blues album, in general, and 99 1/2 Won't Do track, in particular, is sensational.

Check out http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=2623.0

[Vidal]

Yeah, I read that - but only after I had bought his album - an excellent piece.

[oddenda]

Vidal -

          The Dan Pickett (born James Founty) is a collection of 78s from the Gotham label in Phildelphia! He was from Alabama.

Peter B.