New Orleans Owls / Warner's 7 Aces - Columbia 605 (1925)

The New Orleans Owls collection is now complete. Time to work on a few upgrades.

Benjie White cl, as, dir / Bill Padron c / Lester Smith ts / Mose Farrar p / Rene Gelpi bj, g / Dan LeBlanc bb / Earl Crumb d.

Recorded in New Orleans on September 24, 1925.

Here's Warner's 7 Aces...without Byron Warner. 

Ralph Bennett cl, as, vn, dir / Tom Brannon. J.T. Bourne t / Don McIlvaine tb / C. J. Buckner, Eli Pritchett cl, as, ts, bar / Ed Lally p / Bob Pittman bj / Jim O'Neal bb / M. C. "Shucks" Park d.

Recorded in Atlanta on October 1, 1925.

Roosevelt Scott - Vocalion (1939 - 1940)

Just got this complete run of blues singer, Roosevelt Scott, on Vocalion. These are from two Chicago sessions in 1939 and 1940. Not much is known about Scott judging from scant results of internet searches.

Roosevelt Scott v / Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman p / Willie B. James g / Alfred Elkins vocal bass.

Recorded in Chicago on September 13, 1939.

Roosevelt Scott v / Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman p / Fred Williams d.

Recorded in Chicago on January 26, 1940.

Merry Christmas 2016

Will add to this post as I find more Christmas themed records...keep checking back.