Tag: Johnny St. Cyr

From the Record Shelves #208 - Here Comes the Hot Tamale ManFrom the Record Shelves #208 – Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man – I have a memory about one of the tunes on this LP. In the beginning of the record company Stomp Off, we did a couple of LP albums for them with my band Scaniazz. Now when it was time for (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #196 - Bye and ByeFrom the Record Shelves #196 – Bye and Bye – Guitar and banjo player Johnny St. Cyr was back in the business of recording at the end of the 1940s. His absence from the studios had been about twenty years long. Here he is appointed band leader of (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #191 - Alligator BluesFrom the Record Shelves #191 – Alligator Blues – Today I listen to a 78 rpm record with material from a classic session. Between May 7th and 14th, 1927 Louis Armstrong recorded one masterpiece after another when his studio group had been augmented from (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #135 - Adam and Eve Had the BluesFrom the Record Shelves #135 – Adam and Eve Had the Blues. Side two of the LP has eight numbers where Louis Armstrong and Jimmie Noone played together in the accompanying group, with many glimpses of their virtuosity. I may come back to that, but today (…) read more and listenread more and listen