Barbecue Any Old Time Blues From The Pit 1927-1942

Reseña del editor Blues and barbecue are natural companions, both saturated with down-home flavor. Here are 24 tracks of vintage blues that celebrate the joys of eating meat, with plenty of sly nods to other sensual pleasures. Artists include Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, Charlie Campbell & His Red Peppers, Blind Boy Fuller, Memphis Minnie, Barbecue Bob, and many more. A 20-page, full-color booklet chronicles the spread of blues and barbecue across America, complete with rare photographs, song descriptions, and a full discography. As Barbecue Bob would say, "These blues are sure cooked to a turn! Anybody who likes the real thing in blues is in for a feast this time!" Críticas If you think barbecue and blues are inseparable today, you should have been around in the 1930s. It was a time when recordings were finally blowing sheet music away as the primary means of selling music. And it was a time when barbecue joints were replacing occasional family and community gatherings as the primary venue in the South for smoked meats, as pointed out in this CD's liner notes by Tom Hanchett, staff historian at the Museum of the New South in Charlotte NC. One of the results of the confluence of these two developments is the 24 tracks by various musicians compiled on Barbecue Any Old Time: Blues from the Pit 1927-1942.Old Hat Records is a specialty label run by 78 rpm record collector Marshall Wyatt out of his home in Raleigh NC. In the past, he has released anthologies of African-American fiddle music, medicine show songs, hillbilly blues and other vernacular American sounds. The music is digitally remastered and exquisitely packaged, with period photos and extensive liner notes; this one is no exception, and it makes for a romping good time.For one thing, this was also an era when black Americans (then the sole market for this music) didn't really distinguish between jazz and blues; though more than a few of these tracks featuring horns and piano are what we now label 'jazz', back then they were usually lumped in with guitar blues, and combining them here lends this package both variety and swing. And even the guitar blues are the more ragtimey, Piedmont blues of the East Coast, jaunty and upbeat compared to the darker sounds of the Mississippi Delta (where the musicians, when their stomachs started growling, were more likely to sing about ''hot tamales, baby''). Finally, the good-timing tunes here are what the music industry called 'novelty songs', 'double entendre' blues even though in reality their entendre couldn't be much more single. (It does not take a whole lot of brainpower, after all, to figure out what Charlie Campbell means when he sings, ''Pepper Sauce Mama, you make my meat red hot.'')That kind of party atmosphere prevails from beginning to end. (In these songs) barbecue is synonymous with good times. In fact, even the bad times are good when they're described with the sly humor of 'Big Boy' Teddy Edwards in Who Did You Give My Barbecue To, Parts 1 and 2.You want wacky? Bogus Ben Covington's one-of-a-kind, mock-gospel I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop satirizes the Scottish hymn I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say. Back on the sexual front, Bessie Jackson (aka Lucille Bogan), supported by Josh White on guitar and Walter Roland on piano, offers her tender 'barbecue' for sale 'behind the jail' on the seductive Barbecue Bess, while Savannah Churchill, over a nifty jazz septet, throws her hat in the ring boasting Fat Meat Is Good Meat. Memphis Minnie, with her wicked guitar and lusty vocals, raves about her man's Pig Meat on the Line. Georgia White applies a little more polish to her version of Pigmeat Blues, which features a 20-year-old guitarist named Les Paul making his recording debut.But when it comes to the pairing of music with barbecue, one Robert Hicks takes the prize. He was the pitmaster and waiter at Tidwell's Barbecue Place, in the upscale Atlanta suburb of Buckhead. A nimble 12-string guitarist and expressive singer, he was also the evening's entertainment there. In 1927, he cut his debut single, the forlorn Barbecue Blues.' Columbia Records changed his name to Barbecue Bob and promoted the single with photos of him in chef's whites and advertising copy that dripped with barbecue clichés (''cooked to a turn,'' etc.). It was a hit, and Barbecue Bob went on to make a total of 62 recordings over the next three years before dying of pneumonia at age 29. In a more just world, he would be a genuine American culture hero. --John Morthland, Full Custom Gospel, 9/20/11As suggested by the names of many festivals throughout the world, barbecue and the blues seem to be inextricably connected. A new CD, Barbecue Any Old Time: Blues From the Pit, on North Carolina's Old Hat label collects 24 vintage recordings that connect the two Southern traditions made between 1927 and 1942.The diminutive vaudeville bluesman Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon opens the CD with Down At Jasper's Barbecue, in which he boasts of the wide variety of delicacies on hand and the fun to be had at the eatery. Jaxon also contributes a jazzy version of Gimme a Pig's Foot and a Bottle of Beer, most commonly associated with Bessie Smith, backed by a stellar band, including pianist Lil Armstrong and trumpeter Henry 'Red' Allen.Barbecue is a metaphor for, er, something else in many of the songs here, including 'Big Boy' Teddy Edwards' two-part Who Did You Give My Barbecue To?, Vance Dixon's jazz Meat Man Pete, and Mississippian Bo Carter's Pig Meat Is What I Crave. The most charming of these double-meaning songs, though, is Meat Cuttin' Blues by the husband-and-wife vaudeville duo of Hunter and Jenkins.The Magnolia State is nicely represented by the Mississippi Juke Band brothers Roosevelt and Euroy Graves of Hattiesburg, whose boisterous Barbecue Bust suggests why their 1936 session is sometimes identified as marking the birth of rock and roll. In Barbecue Bess, Amory native Lucille Bogan boasts of the quality of the meat she has for sale, while Memphis Minnie of Walls wonders whether anyone has seen her Pig Meat On The Line.As is the case with all of Old Hat's releases, the set includes a lengthy, beautifully illustrated booklet with extensive notes. It's hard to imagine a better soundtrack for smoking your favorite meat, literally or otherwise. --Scott Barretta, The Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, 9/21/11A few years back, Marshall Wyatt was perusing the used compact discs at Reader's Corner in Raleigh - something he does often, as a record collector and record-label magnate. Wyatt came across a compilation with a song by Teddy 'Big Boy' Edwards, a Depression-era blues singer. Called Who Did You Give My Barbecue To? - Part 1, it was a captivating little banjo-blues number from 1934.That inspired Wyatt's newest album, songs about barbecue. The just-released Barbecue Any Old Time: Blues From the Pit - 1927-1942 (Old Hat Records) offers two dozen succulent songs about the beloved Southern fare.''I've always loved barbecue, of course, especially the Carolina variety, and that song got me started looking for more songs about barbecue,'' Wyatt says. ''I found pretty much all of them. There actually aren't that many specifically about barbecue, but there are a ton of songs about meat - Smoked Meat Blues, I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop, Fat Meat Is Good Meat. It's all compatible and fits together under the banner of barbecue.''Barbecue Any Old Time is the eighth release on Wyatt's Old Hat Records, a label that specializes in music from the old-time era. The new album shows the craft and fanatical attention to detail that Wyatt brings to all his projects, with extensive liner notes, credits and period photos vivid enough to make the mouth water.When he was deciding on a track list, Wyatt considered broadening it to include country songs about barbecue. He didn't, for two reasons. First, most of the old hillbilly tunes about barbecue were more comedy skits set to music than songs. And second, they tended to be about cooking pigs over hickory logs and not much else.''The black blues songs about barbecue tend to be more interesting because they're more metaphorical,'' Wyatt says. ''They're about sex, food and other great pleasures of life. Most of these songs have a celebratory tone. A few don't; Smoked Meat Blues is a lament. But they're mostly upbeat and revel in the joys of life. I also wanted to get variety - countrified blues, some more urban songs, jazz, some vaudeville. To me, it all kind of hangs together.''Raleigh native Wyatt is a collector and historian, and he can quote chapter and verse about every song and performer on the album. Of note is Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon, who appears twice. On the opening song Down at Jaspers Bar-B-Que (from 1928), Jaxon portrays a barbecue joint as a veritable Sodom of earthly pleasures in the agitated voice of a carnival barker. Later, on Gimme a Pig's Foot and a Bottle of Beer, he sounds tired and worn out.Other highlights include 1936's Barbecue Bust by the Mississippi Jook Band, which rollicks along powered by kazoo and piano; Pigs' Feet and Slaw, a 1929 ragtime raveup by Tiny Parham; Durham blues icon Brownie McGhee's washboard-driven title track; and the minstrel-era Ham Bone Am Sweet, updated for 1933 by The Four Southern Singers with the sort of harmony vocals that eventually turned into rhythm and blues.Given the decline of the record industry, it's not surprising that Wyatt is looking into alternative sales venues. He's hoping to sell most of his copies at barbecue restaurants and festivals. And it sets the stage for Wyatt's next Old Hat compilation, songs about chicken, which he hopes to release in 2012.''There are so many chicken songs,'' he says. ''It seems like a novelty, but they're musically amazing. Barbecue is like a religion throughout the South, so I'm hoping the barbecue community will buy this CD.'' --David Menconi, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), 9/21/11

Detalles del producto Dimensiones del producto : 5,63 x 0,31 x 4,87 pulgadas; 2,72 Onzas Fabricante : Old Hat Ent. Número de modelo del producto : OHCD1008 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2011 Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 2, 2011 Etiqueta : Old Hat Ent. ASIN : B0059889MO País de origen : EE. UU. Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Yaxa: nº173,620 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº729 en Blues Tradicional (CDs y Vinilo) nº13,571 en Música Internacional (CDs y Vinilo) nº94,247 en Pop (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.6 4.6 de 5 estrellas 13 calificaciones Dimensiones del producto : 5,63 x 0,31 x 4,87 pulgadas; 2,72 Onzas Fabricante : Old Hat Ent. Número de modelo del producto : OHCD1008 Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2011 Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 2, 2011 Etiqueta : Old Hat Ent. ASIN : B0059889MO País de origen : EE. UU. Número de discos : 1

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