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Georgia Tom Vol 1 1928 - 1930

 



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Georgia Tom Vol 2 1930 - 1934

Document BDCD-6022 Georgia Tom (Thomas A Dorsey) Volume 2; 5th February, 1930 to 22nd March 1934.
 
 
Georgia Tom Dorsey: vocal, piano, speech.
With appearances by: Scrapper Blackwell, guitar; Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, bottleneck-slide guitar; and others.
Genre; Blues piano and vocal. Gospel with vocal group and piano. Plus Thomas A. Dorsey speaking.
Informative booklet notes by Howard Rye.
Detailed discography.
 
In February 1930, Georgia Tom turned in another set of melancholy blues and hokum. Second Hand Love returns to the theme of Pig Meat Blues in disparaging older women, though in fairness Levee Bound Blues implies that forty-year old men are practically past it too. Second-Hand Woman Bluesis by contrast a straightforward warning against adultery. For the American Record Company two months later, Tom was given Big Bill Broonzy as accompanist. Broonzy appears on several 1930 recordings, his delicate filigree work particularly notable on Don’t Leave Me Blues and Been Mistreated Blues. The hyperbole of Six-Shooter Blues has a surreal quality: “If your woman mistreats you, shoot her, and grab a train and ride”. Continued...



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Georgia Tom Dorsey, the essential DOUBLE CD
Classic Blues is devoted to re-issuing the classic recordings of America's greatist blues artists. VERY LIMITED STOCK



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Too Late Too Late Vol 4 c. 1892 - 1937



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Jazz & Blues Piano Vol 2 1924 - 1947



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