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Kokomo Arnold Vol 4 1937 - 1938 £7.49

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Kokomo Arnold

TRACK LIST

Kokomo Arnold 01 - Mean old twister Listen 02 - Red beans and rice Listen 03 - Set down gal Listen 04 - Big ship blues Listen 05 - Crying blues Listen 06 - Grandpa got drunk Listen 07 - Black mattie Listen 08 - Neck bone blues Listen 09 - Buddie Brown blues (rolling time) Listen 10 - Rocky road blues Listen 11 - Head cuttin` blues Listen 12 - Broke man blues Listen 13 - Back on the job Listen 14 - Shine on, moon (shine on, shine on) Listen 15 - Your ways and actions Listen 16 - Tired of runnin` from door to door Listen 17 - My well is dry Listen 18 - Midnight blues Listen 19 - Goin` down in Galilee (swing along with me) Listen 20 - Bad luck blues Listen 21 - Kid man blues Listen 22 - Something`s hot Listen

Kokomo Arnold, vocal, slide guitar.

With contributions by Peetie Wheatstraw, piano, and others...

Genres: Country Blues, Country Blues guitar, bottleneck-slide-guitar, Georgia blues, Chicago blues.
Informative booklet notes by Keith Briggs.
Detailed discography

At the time that the first records appearing on this CD were made, March 1937, Kokomo Arnold had been with Decca for two and a half years and his relationship with Mayo Williams was deteriorating. It was all to end in the following year when Kokomo decided that Williams was not dealing fairly with him and broke away from recording altogether. He had never been a committed bluesman anyway, having he felt, many other rows to hoe. Not that you would have guessed that from the quality of the recordings that he made during his last sessions; from the contemporary blues reportage of Mean Old Twister through to his final, aptly named, display piece Something’s Hot he maintained an enviable level of excellence enlivened here and there by the odd flash of brilliance. Maybe it was a reflection of his clash with Williams that many of his recordings from this period remained unissued - or maybe it was part of its cause.