Papa Lemon Nash: the 1959-1961 Oster & Allen Recordings / Arhoolie LP-546

Description

Arhoolie LP-546  / 1959-1961 field recordings by Dick Allen and Harry Oster. / Lemon Nash was a ukelele player from the Storyville district of New Orleans whose career spanned from the earliest days of Jazz up through the 1960s. A fixture for decades in the French Quarter, Lemon Nash traveled widely with circuses and medicine shows, hawking blood tonic and performing from his vast repertoire on the uke.

A1     Bourbon Street Parade
A2     Papa Lemon’s Blues
A3     Serenading With Frank Wagner
A4     Grave Digger’s Blues
A5     Trouble With The Man
A6     What Was A Medicine Show Like?
A7     Bowleg Rooster, Duckleg Hen / Sweet Georgia Brown
A8     $25 A Night
A9     Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
A10     Anybody Seen My Kitty?
A11     Please Give Me Black And Brown
A12     Barrelhouse
A13     Let The Good Times Roll
A14     What A Friend We Have In Jesus
B1     Way In The Hee Hi Hoo
B2     We Played Anywhere
B3     I’m Blue Every Monday
B4     Stagolee
B5     The Battlefield
B6     Rabbit Brown
B7     If You Could Fight Like You Can Love
B8     Those Drafting Blues
B9     Spano’s And Fox
B10     Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
B11     Big Rock Candy Mountain
B12     The Jiggler Vein And The Raincoat
B13     Brownskin, Come And Go With Me