Message Board Archive: Thread Number 117

I recently picked up one of those cheap Indigo compilation CDs, called
Raggin' the Blues: East Coast Blues. It has 3 tunes by Luke Jordan from
1927. Great stuff! Are there any other Luke Jordan recordings out there?

Andrew

Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:56:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: andrewm@martlet1.lan.mcgill.ca (Andrew)
Subject: Titles
Message Number: 117.1

Oops. Forgot to mention the Luke Jordan titles: Church Bell Blues, Pick
Poor Robin Clean, and Cocaine Blues.

Andrew

Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:52:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: zeppa@earthlink.net (Frank Basile)
Subject: More: Re: Luke Jordan Recordings
Message Number: 117.2

Andrew wrote:
>I recently picked up one of those cheap Indigo compilation
>CDs, called Raggin' the Blues: East Coast Blues. It has 3
>tunes by Luke Jordan from 1927. Great stuff! Are there any
>other Luke Jordan recordings out there?
Luke Jordan's really fun! You can find his complete recorded works on:
The Songster Tradition Document DOCD-5045
The LJ titles included are:
Church Bells Blues (unissued)
Church Bells Blues
Pick Poor Robin Clean (unissued)
Pick Poor Robin Clean
Cocaine Blues
Travelin' Coon
My Gal's Done Quit Me
Won't You Be Kind
There are two titles that were recorded but have not yet been
discovered. They are:
If I Call You Mama
Tom Brown Sits In His Prison Cell
Plus, if you get this CD, you also get Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve
Reed as well as Louie Lasky... what a deal!
Frank

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 03:34:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Balfour
Subject: More: Unissued?
Message Number: 117.2.1

It is a bit disingenuous of Document to refer to those two alternative
Jordan takes as "unissued" because back in 1970 Neil Slaven discovered
the acetates and included them on a UK RCA compilation entitled
"Travellin' This Lonesome Road" from which Johnny Parth must have taken
them for the CD! All the same it is a superb compilation despite the
re-writing of history.

Alan Balfour - Southampton, UK

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 20:51:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: ari@secondmind.com (Ari Eisinger)
Subject: Disagree: re: "Unissued?"
Message Number: 117.2.1.1

I think that in this context, "unissued" means never issued as a 78.
Document always gives the serial number of the original 78, and if the
recording was not issued on 78, the piece is labeled "unissued". This is
standard nomenclature for 78 discographical info as far as I know, so I
don't think this is an attempt to mislead, only to *document*.

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:55:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: abalfour@dial.pipex.com (Alan Balfour)
Subject: Agree: Fair comment
Message Number: 117.2.1.1.1

Point taken and am suitably admonished.

Having known Johnny for thirty years and written about 50 booklets for
him, I am the last to knock his 'documentation' efforts but in certain
matters feel it only right to set the record straight. Ooops, rather
unfortunate terminology but....

Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: ari@secondmind.com (Ari Eisinger)
Subject: Ok: Re: "Fair comment"
Message Number: 117.2.1.1.1.1

No admonishment was intended, Alan, just ordinary disagreement.