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HARD LIFE BLUES

Description:
Thirty one previously unreleased tracks from the Standard Transcription Service. Cool stuff. Although they dressed western, this was actually a solid 1950s pop jazz vocals act, built around the sultry, girl next door vocals of Juanita Vastine aka Sweet Georgia Brown and the dynamic, lightning fast guitar work of Roy Lanham. Clearly influenced by Les Paul and Mary Ford, as well as by hotshot pickers such Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Lanham's outfit played solid, flawless pop material. They also reached into sleek group vocals reminiscent of wartime ensembles like the Pied Pipers and Mills Brothers. This is really a remarkable disc, collecting over thirty transcription disc tracks by this little known group. Lanham himself was a popular and highly sought after session picker, working with Merle Travis, Hank Penny and Roy Rogers, and even had cut a few tunes with Frank Sinatra and various obscure rockabilly artists. In the early '60s, he eventually signed on with a later edition of the Sons Of The Pioneers a steady paying gig that subsumed the brilliant guitar work heard on these tracks. Great material well worth checking out!

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

Hard Life Blues (a)

Walking With You (a)

Why Can't That Someone Be Me (a)

Elementary Canal

When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (a)

Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah

Section Eight

I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (a)

Mandolin King Rag

Now And Then (a)

Blue Mood

Trouble, Trouble (b)

I Waited Too Late (a)

Lanham's Leap

Tabby The Cat

Arkansas Traveler

I Don't Want A Second Hand Romance

Lost Weekend

Meanest Kind Of Blues

(Just One Way To Say) I Love You (a)

I Will Be True To You (c)

Picnic For Strings

Carolina Moon (a)

Tweedle O'Twill (a)

I'll Never Love No One But You (a)

Dimples And Cherry Cheeks

Kerry Dance

Peachy Pie

The Good Lord Willing (a)

Stay A Little Longer (b)

Waitin' For My Gal To Come Back (c)

Vocalists: a- Juanita Vastine aka 'Sweet Georgia Brown'; b- Roy Lanham; c- Dusty Rhoads Personnel: Doug Dalton, George Morgan, Dusty Rhoads, Jerry Byrd, Gene Monbeck

Label:	SOUNDIES
Number:	4137
Item Code:	29018
Format:	CD
Genre:
Dates:	(early 1950s)
Price:	$12.00 encore listing
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