Kokomo Arnold - King Of The Bottleneck Guitar

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 71:13
Size: 163.1 MB
Released: 1992/2000
Styles: Acoustic Chicago blues
Art: Front

1. Milk Cow Blues (3:11)
2. Old Original Kokomo Blues (2:54)
3. Back To The Woods (3:04)
4. Sagefield Woman Blues (3:04)
5. Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues) (3:25)
6. Sissy Man Blues (3:09)
7. Front Door Blues (32 20 Blues) (3:25)
8. Back Door Blues (3:26)
9. The Twelves (Dirty Dozens) (3:11)
10. Biscuit Roller Blues (3:14)
11. Chain Gang Blues (3:05)
12. How Long How Long Blues (3:14)
13. Bo-Weavil Blues (3:07)
14. Busy Bootin' (2:30)
15. Policy Wheel Blues (2:57)
16. Milk Cow Blues No 4 (2:56)
17. Model T Woman Blues (2:56)
18. I'll Be Up Some Day (3:05)
19. Mister Charlie (2:45)
20. Back Fence Picket Blues (3:12)
21. Wild Water Blues (3:17)
22. Red Beans And Rice (3:05)
23. Buddie Brown Blues (Rolling Time) (2:52)

"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

King Of The Bottleneck Guitar

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