Papa Charlie Jackson was one of the first country blues artists to emerge from the minstrel, vaudeville and medicine shows to become a successful recording artist during the 1920s. Born in New Orleans in 1885, he sang and played banjo and guitar, working in travelling shows across the south before settling in Chicago, close to the hubs of commercial recording in the '20s. He largely recorded the kind of material he had been performing for years on the road, comprising blues in the bawdy tradition, often with a humorous flavour. This great-value 72-track 3-CD set comprising most of his recordings for Paramount, Vocalion and Okeh from his debut in 1924 through to 1934 - the era which encompassed his entire recording career prior to his death in 1938. As well as his solo recordings, it includes tracks done with the great blues singers Ida Cox and Ma Rainey, and with Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals, featuring Johnny Dodds, as well two unique sides with Blind Blake in 1929 comprising elements of blues jam session, hokum recording, and ragtime. It is a sunstantial, thorough and very entertaining overview of the career of a bluesman who was not maybe one of the genre's most historically important or influential figures, but who paved the way for many other blues artists to pursue successful recording careers.
6 I Got What It Takes But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away
7 Shave Em Dry
8 Coffee Pot Blues
9 Mister Man Part I
10 The Faking Blues
11 Shake That Thing
12 I'm Alabama Bound
13 Drop That Sack
14 Mama Don't Allow It (And She Ain't Gonna Have It Here)
15 Take Me Back Blues
16 Mama, Don't You Think I Know'
17 Hot Papa Blues
18 All I Want Is a Spoonful
19 Maxwell Street Blues
20 I'm Going Where the Chilly Winds Don't Blow
21 Texas Blues
22 I'm Tired of Fooling Around with You
23 Jackson's Blues
24 Let's Get Along
25 Butter and Egg Man Blues
26 The Judge Cliff Davis Blues
27 Mumsy Mumsy Blues
28 Up the Way Bound
29 Four Eleven Forty Four
30 Your Baby Aint Sweet Like Mine
31 Bad Luck Woman Blues
32 Salty Dog - Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals
33 Fat Mouth Blues
34 Gay Cattin'
35 Coal Man Blues
36 She Belongs to Me
37 Skoodle Um Skoo
38 Sheik of Desplaines Street
39 Look Out Papa Don't Tear Your Pants
40 Baby, Don't You Be So Mean
41 Blue Monday Morning Blues
42 Bright Eyes
43 I'm Looking for a Woman Who Knows How to Treat Me Right
44 Long Gone Lost John
45 Ash Tray Blues
46 No Need of Knockin' on the Blind
47 Baby Papa Needs His Lovin'
48 I Like to Love My Baby
49 Lexington Kentucky Blues
50 Good Doing Papa Blues
51 Ma and Pa Poorhouse Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson was one of the first country blues artists to emerge from the minstrel, vaudeville and medicine shows to become a successful recording artist during the 1920s. Born in New Orleans in 1885, he sang and played banjo and guitar, working in travelling shows across the south before settling in Chicago, close to the hubs of commercial recording in the '20s. He largely recorded the kind of material he had been performing for years on the road, comprising blues in the bawdy tradition, often with a humorous flavour. This great-value 72-track 3-CD set comprising most of his recordings for Paramount, Vocalion and Okeh from his debut in 1924 through to 1934 - the era which encompassed his entire recording career prior to his death in 1938. As well as his solo recordings, it includes tracks done with the great blues singers Ida Cox and Ma Rainey, and with Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals, featuring Johnny Dodds, as well two unique sides with Blind Blake in 1929 comprising elements of blues jam session, hokum recording, and ragtime. It is a sunstantial, thorough and very entertaining overview of the career of a bluesman who was not maybe one of the genre's most historically important or influential figures, but who paved the way for many other blues artists to pursue successful recording careers.
