Eva Taylor – Vol. 1 1922-1923 / Document CD-5408

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New Moon  – Eva Taylor
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate  – Eva Taylor
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home  – Eva Taylor
My Pillow and Me  – Eva Taylor
That Da-Da Strain  – Eva Taylor
Downhearted Blues  – Eva Taylor
You Missed a Good Woman When You Picked All over Me  – Eva Taylor
Last Go Round Blues  – Eva Taylor
You Can Have My Man (If He Comes to See You Too)  – Eva Taylor
I’m Going Away Just to Wear You off My Mind  – Eva Taylor
Twelfth Street Rag  – Eva Taylor
My Pillow and Me  – Eva Taylor
Farewell Blues  – Eva Taylor
Gulf Coast Blues  – Eva Taylor
From Now on Blues  – Eva Taylor
Church Street Sobbin’ Blues  – Eva Taylor
You’ll Never Have No Luck by Quittin’ Me  – Eva Taylor
I’m Gonna See You When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine  – Eva Taylor
Barefoot Blues  – Eva Taylor
Do It a Long Time Papa  – Eva Taylor
Oh! Daddy Blues  – Eva Taylor
I’ve Got the “Yes! We Have No Banana” Blues  – Eva Taylor
Original Charleston Strut  – Eva Taylor

Like it or not, Eva Taylor (1895-1977) will always be judged in the shadow of her famous husband, composer-pianist-arranger-publisher Clarence Williams (1898-1965). As Okeh Records’ A&R man, he saw to it that Ms. Taylor was recorded extensively (usually on copyrights he held). Volume 1 (of 3) begins with Williams’ New Moon, a one-off for the shorted-lived black-owned Black Swan label. Along with her cover versions of Alberta Hunter’s Down Hearted Blues and Clarence Williams’ Gulf Coast Blues (originally recorded by Monette Moore), we have the very first vocal version of Church Street Sobbin’ Blues (originally recorded by The Louisiana Five), a tune better known today to blues guitarists from Eddie Lang’s exquisite 1928 version.