File: MP3 @ 320K/sTime: 77:08
Size: 181,0 MB
Released: 2010
Styles: Slide Guitar Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Blues
Art: Front
1. Milk Cow Blues (3:11)
2. It Feels So Good (3:14)
3. Salty Dog (2:49)
4. Busy Bootin' (2:28)
5. Old Original Kokomo Blues (2:54)
6. Dirty Dozens (3:11)
7. I'll Be Up Someday (3:06)
8. Bull Headed Woman Blues (2:58)
9. How Long Blues (3:14)
10. Sissy Man Blues (3:10)
11. Policy Wheel Blues (2:57)
12. Back To The Woods (3:04)
13. Chain Gang Blues (3:04)
14. Crying Blues (2:59)
15. Mister Charlie (2:45)
16. Bad Luck Blues (2:52)
17. Cold Winter Blues (3:11)
18. Workin' On This Project (3:04)
19. Dark Angel (3:09)
20. Front Door Blues (3:27)
21. Back Door Blues (3:25)
22. Biscuit Roller Blues (3:14)
23. Sagefield Woman Blues (3:05)
24. Gettin' It Fixed (3:16)
25. Milk Cow Blues Take 2 (3:09)
"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
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
Milk Cow Blues
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