Title: Dick Spottswood and Tompkins Square Present ... 1925 Songs (Various Artists) Artist: Various Artists Label: Tompkins Square Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 850052454142 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2026-06-19 Number of Discs: 2
Dick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the development of jazz, blues and early country music.
Tracks: 1.1 Dora Carr - Cow Cow Blues 1.2 Rosa Lee Carson - the Drinker's Child 1.3 Wheat Street Female Quartet - Go Down, Moses 1.4 WM. B. Houchens and J.M. Houchin - Fisher's Hornpipe and Opera Reel 1.5 Old Southern Jug Band - Hatchet Head Blues 1.6 Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Sherman Valley 1.7 Tweedy Brothers - Cripple Creek 1.8 Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag 1.9 Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans - Peculiar 1.10 Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack 1.11 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Hot Hot Hottentot 1.12 Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues 1.13 Deacon L.J. Bates - All I Want Is That Pure Religion 1.14 Seminole Syncopators - Sailing on Lake Pontchartrain 1.15 Osey Helton - Cacklin' Hen 1.16 Ernest Helton - Royal Clog 2.1 Dr. James Roach - Gue Gue Solingaie 2.2 R.B. Smith ; S.J. Allgood - American and Spanish Fandango 2.3 Hitch's Happy Harmonists - Washboard Blues 2.4 Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues 2.5 Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs - Grandpa's Spells 2.6 Ida Cox - How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim 2.7 Bix ; His Rhythm Jugglers - Davenport Blues 2.8 Clifford's Lousiville Jugband - Struttin' the Blues 2.9 Homer Davenport ; Young Brothers - the Fox Chase (Reel) 2.10 Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders - Salty Dog 2.11 Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra - Jambled Blues 2.12 Land Norris - Dogwood Mountain 2.13 New Orleans Owls - Stomp Off - Let's Go 2.14 Sylvester Weaver - Mixing Them Up in C 2.15 Mound City Blue Blowers - Gettin' Told 2.16 Chauncey C. Lee - Banjo Rag
