096297054628

Papa Lemon - The 1959-1961 Oster & Allen Recordings

Lemon Nash

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Format: CD

Cat No: ARHCD546

Release Date:  05 May 2014

Label:  Arhoolie

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  096297054628

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    Lemon Nash, born April 22, 1898, came up in the Storyville district of New Orleans, picked up ukulele around 1915 during the Hawaiian music craze, hit the road with a medicine show in the early 1920s hawking Royaline Blood Tonic for an Indian Chief and a legless cowboy, and traveled with various circuses: Downie Brothers, John Robinson, Sells-Floto. With the exception of two stints on the railroad, an eight-year stretch with the merchant marine, and some time spent working out of Nashville with a nine piece band, Papa Lemon spent the better part of fifty years playing blues, jazz, ballads, popular tunes or whatever else it took to earn a tip the streets and barrooms of New Orleans. These recordings were made on a number of occasions between 1959-1961 by folklorist Dr. Harry Oster of LSU and Richard B. Allen of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane. 18 songs and 9 talking tracks. With biographical notes by Adam Machado.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Bourbon Street Parade
      • 2. Papa Lemon's Blues
      • 3. Serenading with Frank Wagner
      • 4. Grave Digger's Blues
      • 5. Trouble With the Man
      • 6. What Was a Medicine Show Like?
      • 7. Bowleg Rooster
      • 8. Duckleg Hen / Sweet Georgia Brown
      • 9. $25 a Night
      • 10. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
      • 11. Anybody Seen My Kitty?
      • 12. Please Give Me Black and Brown
      • 13. Barrelhouse
      • 14. Let the Good Times Roll
      • 15. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
      • 16. Way in the Hee Hi Hoo
      • 17. We Played Anywhere
      • 18. I'm Blue Every Monday
      • 19. Stagolee
      • 20. The Battlefield
      • 21. Rabbit Brown
      • 22. If You Could Fight Like You Can Love
      • 23. Those Drafting Blues
      • 24. Spano's and Fox
      • 25. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
      • 26. Big Rock Candy Mountain
      • 27. The Jiggler Vein and the Raincoat
      • . Brownskin