Medicine For The Blues, by The Old Time Rags

Medicine For The Blues

by The Old Time Rags

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1.	When I Get The Blues 03:25	info	buy track
2.	Hesitation Blues 03:46	info	buy track
3.	Sister Kate (I Wish I Could Shimmy Like) 03:08		buy track
4.	You've Got To Move 04:07		buy track
5.	I Got Mine 03:12		buy track
6.	I Heard The Voice Of A Pork chop Say 02:37		buy track
7.	Love Me Honey 02:36		buy track
8.	C.C. Ryder 04:15		buy track
9.	Blues Stay Away From Me 01:55		buy track
10.	Nobody Knows You (When You Down and Out) 03:38		buy track
11.	The Home-brew Rag 01:59		buy track
12.	Dr.Jazz 02:59		buy track
13.	In The Wee Midnight Hours 03:02		buy track

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A fine concoction of music from the Medicine shows mixed with New Orleans Rhythm and Blues.

Introducing the Vocal Styling and rhythmical feet of Phoebe Ophelia combined with the multi-instrumentality of Laurence Marshall.

Vast research has gone into producing this album with never heard before tracks which were played on the Kerosene circuit of the touring medicine shows in the USA at the turn of the century. Combined with favourites of the New Orleans street repertoire this album will immerse you in the timeless sound of Vaudeville, Variety and travelling music.

Listen out for all of the following:

Phoebe Ophelia performs:
Appalachian Flat Foot Dancing.
Salt Dancing
soft shoe shuffling
Jazz Tap Dancing
5 string claw hammer banjo
Spoon Playing

and Laurence Marshall (through his own contraption)
plays simultaneously:
Bass drum
Cowbell
Cymbals
Head Bell
Hand Crank
Duck Call
Harmonica
Kazoo
Siren Whistle
Train Whistle
Bulb Horns
Tenor Banjo
Banjolele
Trombugle
Helicon
Trombone

credits

released September 1, 2019

Recorded on Reel to Reel tape by Adam Richards
Mixed and Mastered by Max Miller

All music and sounds performed by Laurence Marshall and Phoebe Ophelia

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