Kokomo Arnold - Original Kokomo Blues 1934-1938

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:46
Size: 136.8 MB
Styles: Pre-war blues, Chicago blues
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:51] 1. Old Original Kokomo Blues
[3:07] 2. Milk Cow Blues
[3:00] 3. Back To The Woods
[3:06] 4. Sissy Man Blues
[3:22] 5. Front Door Blues
[3:07] 6. The Twelves
[3:11] 7. Feels So Good
[3:00] 8. Chain Gang Blues
[3:10] 9. How Long Blues
[2:25] 10. Busy Bootin'
[2:53] 11. Policy Wheel Blues
[3:02] 12. I'll Be Up Someday
[2:54] 13. Bull Headed Woman Blues
[3:06] 14. Dark Angel
[2:41] 15. Mister Charlie
[3:07] 16. Cold Winter Blues
[2:46] 17. Salty Dog
[3:00] 18. Working At The Project
[2:56] 19. Crying Blues
[2:51] 20. Bad Luck Blues

"Kokomo" was a popular brand of coffee early in the 20th century, and was the subject of Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell's first recorded blues in 1928. When slide guitar specialist James Arnold revamped this number as "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for Decca in 1934, little did he know that this would soon become his permanent handle -- Kokomo Arnold.

Kokomo Arnold was born in Georgia, and began his musical career in Buffalo, New York in the early '20s. During prohibition, Kokomo Arnold worked primarily as a bootlegger, and performing music was a only sideline to him. Nonetheless he worked out a distinctive style of bottleneck slide guitar and blues singing that set him apart from his contemporaries. In the late '20s, Arnold settled for a short time in Mississippi, making his first recordings in May 1930 for Victor in Memphis under the name of "Gitfiddle Jim." Arnold moved to Chicago in order to be near to where the action was as a bootlegger, but the repeal of the Volstead Act put him out of business, so he turned instead to music as a full-time vocation. ~Uncle Dave Lewis

Original Kokomo Blues 1934-1938

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