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| Kokomo Arnold Vol 3 1936 - 1937 £8.69 |
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| Kokomo Arnold CDs
Kokomo Arnold was born in Georgia on September 15, 1901, and began his musical career in Buffalo, New York in the early '20s. During prohibition, Kokomo Arnold worked primarily as a bootlegger, and performing music was a only sideline to him. Nonetheless he worked out a distinctive style of bottleneck slide guitar and blues singing that set him apart from his contemporaries.
In the early 1930's Arnold moved to Chicago in order to be near to where the action was as a bootlegger, but the repeal of the Volstead Act put him out of business, so he turned instead to music as a full-time vocation. From his first Decca session of September 10, 1934 until he finally called it quits after his session of May 12, 1938, Kokomo Arnold made 88 sides under his own name for Decca, which rejected only nine of them - two of the rejected titles have since been recovered. The tracks on this Document Records CD were recorded between May 1936 to March 1937. In these sessions he was accompanied by Roosevelt Sykes, Albert Ammons and Peetie Wheatstraw on piano. The first tracks have the somewhat nasel voice of Alice Moore nicely offset by Wheatstraw's rolling piano and some untypical single string work from Kokomo who only busts out with his trademark bottleneck rushes here and there on "Three Men" and "I'm Going Fishing Too". Decca decided on a little experiment in July of 1936 when they incorporated Kokomo into Oscar's Chicago Swingers a sort of Harlem Hamfats set-up backing the vocals of Lovin' Sam Theard. Just how successfully Kokomo's unique sound fitted in with a group that consisted of two guitars, a clarinet, piano and drums you can judge for yourself. Another masterpiece featured here is the minor blues track "Wild Water Blues". Kokomo Arnold quit the music business in 1938 and went into factory work in Chicago. He was rediscovered there by blues researchers in 1962, but didn't show much enthusiasm for reviving his musical career, and certainly did not resume recording. He died of a heart attack at the age of 67 in 1966. Thanks to Keith Briggs |
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