Ivories and Bellows

Tonight is a bounce around striding piano keys and the raucous pumps of accordions. An oddly well meshed mix of jazz, Cajun ballads, some blues with a dash of country tunes to boot. Bound to put pep in any step!

Playlist:

Isom Fontenot & Jerry Devillier, “N'onc 'Dam Et Tante Bassette”

from Cajun Fai Do-Do

Arhoolie

State Street Ramblers, “Wild Man Stomp”

from Barrel House Stomp - Single

SKEETCHES - 2015

Harris Brother's Texans, “Gut Bucket Shuffle”

from Brunswick/Vocalion: Odds and Bits 1926-1930

Timeless Records - 1999

The Boswell Sisters, “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”

from Boswell Sisters

Wnts - 2008

Courtney Granger, “La Belle De La Louisiane”

from Un Bal Chez Balfa

Rounder - 1999

Warner Williams & Jay Summerour, “Key to the Highway”

from Blues Highway: Live

Smithsonian Folkways - 2004

Mance Lipscomb, “Charlie James”

from You Got to Reap What You Sow

Arhoolie Records - 1993

Conjunto Bernal, “Connie”

from Mi Único Camino

Arhoolie Records - 1992

Lucky Millinder, “Shout, Sister, Shout!”

from Lucky Millinder

So Hot ! - 2006

Sheesham and Lotus, “Shuffle About”

from Five Miles from Town

Sheesham and Lotus - 2011

Tommy Whitmer's Band, “Fire on the Mountain”

from Gennett Old Time Music 1927-34

JSP - 2010

Blues Birdhead, “Mean Low Blues (Remastered)”

from Mean Low Blues (Remastered) - Single

Bacci Bros Records

Cyp And Adam Landreneau, “La valse de Denus Mcgee”

from Cajun fais Do-Do

Arhoolie Records - 1995

Tram, Bix and Eddie, “For No Reason At All In C”

from The Jazz Modernists 1924-1933

Retrieval - 2009

McKinney's Cotton Pickers, “Zonky”

from McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Greatest Jazz Hits

Flat Five Records - 2015

Bat The Humming Bird, “Humming Blues”

from Down In Black Bottom: Lowdown Barrelhouse Piano

Yazoo - 1999

David Grisman, John Hartford & Mike Seeger, “Blue Ridge Cabin Home”

from Retrograss

Acoustic Disc - 1999

Ted Hawkins, “Peace & Happiness”

from Cold and Bitter Tears - Essential Recordings

New Rounder - 2009

Hi Henry Brown, “Titanic Blues”

from St. Louis Blues (1929-1935) - The Depression

Yazoo - 1991

Fred Cockerham, “Long Steel Rail”

from Clawhammer Banjo, Vol. 1

Rebel Records - 2004

Leo Soileau, “Mama, Where You At?”

from The Early Recordings of Leo Soileau

Yazoo - 2006

Fats Waller, “Smashin' Thirds”

from RCA Original Masters: The Best of Fats Waller

RCA Bluebird - 1931

Joe's Acadians, “Il Ya Pas La Claire De Lune”

from Cajun Country Vol. 2

JSP

Charles Avery, “Dearborn St. Breakdown (Remastered)”

from Dearborn St. Breakdown (Remastered) - Single

Bacci Bros Records

Joe Stone, “It's Hard Time”

from St. Louis Town (1927-1932)

Yazoo - 1991

James Gordon, “Neck Bone Blues”

from 21st St. Stomp

Shanachie

Lewis Bronzeville Five, “Natchez Mississippi Blues”

from Black Secular Vocal groups

Document

Ike Gordon, “Don't Let the Devil Ride”

from Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African American Gospel

Tompkins Square

Esker Hutchins, “Cumberland Gap”

from Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records

County Records - 2015

Fiddling Sam Long, “Seneca Square Dance”

from The Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Yazoo - 2012

Jelly Roll Anderson, “Good Time Blues”

from Times Ain't Like They Used To Be: Vol. 7

Yazoo

Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris, “Short Life and It's Trouble”

from When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues

RCA Bluebird - 2004

Tony Rice, “Changes”

from Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection

New Rounder - 2008

Ernest V. Stoneman Trio, “Untitled”

from Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950

Legacy/Columbia - 1992

Eddie Condon's Feetwarmers, “Makin' Frien's”

from Roaring 20's Revue Vol. 1

CC

Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson, “Hot Fingers”

from Lang & Venuti: NY Sessions 1926-35 [Disc 3]

Sony

Original Memphis Melody Boys, “Blue Grass Blues”

from The First Days of Jazz

Timeless Records - 1999

Jilson Setters, “Way Up On Clinch Mountain”

from My Rough and Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1

Yazoo - 2005