Big thanks to Weston Hughes
for presenting a beautiful version
of this program last week while I recovered
from a pulled back muscle garnished
with an attack of the gout.

This week's list of potentials & probabilities:

Face the Music 3.20.14

Boogie Woogie

King Oliver & his Orchestra 1930

Endurance Stomp

State Street Ramblers 1928

What’s the Matter Now?

Charles “Bozo” Nickerson 1930

Nobody Knows You

When You’re Down and Out

Clarence “Pinetop” Smith 1929

Unemployment Stomp

Big Bill Broonzy 1938

Daddy What You Done To Me

Coot Grant & Socks Wilson 1933

Newport Blues

Cincinnati Jug Band 1929

Cocaine

Dick Justice 1929

Lock and Key

Bessie Smith

with James P. Johnson 1927

Greenville Strut

Mississippi Sarah Watson

& Daddy Stovepipe 1931

Shake Your Shimmy

The Midnight Rounders

with Jimmy Blythe &

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1928

Everybody Loves My Baby

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

with Louis Armstrong 1924

Yaaka Hoola Hickey Doola

Al Jolson 1916

That Thing Called Love

{written by Perry Bradford}

Zez Confrey piano roll 1919

Rippling Waters

Willie the Lion Smith 1939

Dardanella

Art Tatum 1949

Cow Cow Blues

Meade Lux Lewis

private live recording

California, late 1940s

Weary Blues

Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet 2013