The Rough Guide To Hokum Blues
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This Rough Guide presents classic recordings from the heyday of the hokum craze – collection of humorous songs which show a fun and racy side to the blues. Featuring many legendary country bluesmen including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell and Charley Patton, plus by blues divas Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie …
This Rough Guide presents classic recordings from the heyday of the hokum craze – collection of humorous songs which show a fun and racy side to the blues. Featuring many legendary country bluesmen including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell and Charley Patton, plus by blues divas Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Memphis Minnie.
With its early minstrel show origins, hokum was a novelty style that showed a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light hearted. Its spicy style often made repeated and continual sexual references by using clever and subtle (but not always) innuendo. Its popularity would last through the 1930s and its influence has remained part of the blues ever since.
Side A
- Barbecue Bob – Honey Your Going Too Fast
- Big Bill Broonzy – Hokum Stomp
- Bessie Smith – Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
- Papa Charlie Jackson – Shake That Thing
- Lucille Bogan – Barbecue Bess
- Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon – Can’t You Wait Till You Get Home
- Noah Lewis’ Jug Band
Side B
- Bo Carter – Cigarette Blues
- Allen Brothers – Bow Wow Blues
- Ma Rainey – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Dallas String Band with Coley Jones – Hokum Blues
- Blind Lemon Jefferson – Black Snake Moan
- Tampa Red & Georgia Tom – It’s Tight Like That
