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Kokomo Arnold Vol 1 1930 - 1935 Kokomo Arnold, bottleneck-slide guitar, vocal.
Genres; “Country” Blues, Georgia Blues, Early Chicago Blues, Bottlenck-slide Guitar. Informative booklet notes by Keith Briggs. Detailed discography.
Putting a bottleneck onto the little finger of the fretting hand and ‘sliding’ it up and down the strings of a guitar to produce a spine-chilling and almost vocal sound is a trick employed by many blues players. From Bukka White to Joe Louis Walker, many blues players have made startling use of the style, two of the most famous being Elmore James and James Kokomo Arnold. Kokomo, often placing his guitar in his lap Hawaiian-style and ran a glass across the strings. He was left-handed and had a somewhat erratic sense of time - but he was probably the fastest bottleneck guitarist ever to record. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Kokomo Arnold Vol 2 1935 - 1936 Kokomo Arnold Vol 2 1935 - 1936 Kokomo Arnold, vocal, bottleneck-slide guitar. Genres: Country Blues, Country Blues guitar, bottleneck-slide-guitar, Georgia blues, Chicago blues. Informative booklet notes by Keith Briggs. Detailed discography By 1935 Kokomo Arnold was firmly ensconced in Chicago. He was still a country boy to many of his associates but, never an unworldly man; he was quickly getting wise to the big city and its ways. Despite his dedication to his basement bootlegging business and a strong desire to "go fishing instead" he had become a fixture on the local entertainment scene, working beside most of the big names in the blues at that time. More Info on our New Store >> |
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Kokomo Arnold Vol 3 1936 - 1937 Kokomo Arnold Vol 3: 22nd May 1936 to March 12th 1937 Kokomo Arnold, vocal steel, bottleneck-slide guitar’
With contributions by; Alice Moore vocal, Signifying Mary Johnson, vocal; Lovin’ Sam Theard, vocal; Roosevelt Sykes, piano; Albert Ammons, piano, Peetie Wheatstraw, piano and others...
Georgia blues , Chicago blues, Bottleneck-slide guitar. Informative booklet notes by Keith Briggs Detailed Discography
James “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, he 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. Continued...
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Kokomo Arnold Vol 4 1937 - 1938 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. 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. More Info on our New Store >> |
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Too Late Too Late Blues 1926 - 1944 More Info on our New Store >> |
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Too Late Too Late Vol 2 1897 - 1935 More Info on our New Store >> |
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Too Late Too Late Vol 13 1921 - 1940 More Info on our New Store >> |
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