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Original Washboard Band
Category: Artist Time period: Pre-WWII and Post-WWII
Date nominated: Nov 28, 2015 Ratings: 2 Average rating: 3.95
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LP Scrubbin' & Pickin' RCA LPM1958. Founded in the 1920's. From Brunswick Island, Georgia. Sea Island and Jekyll Island. Used to perform for wealthy white families' parties, such as the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Morgans and Goulds. Nathan Jones, Gravelly voice, thimbles, frying pans and kazoo, Robert 'Washboard' arranger, baritone and kazoo, Norman 'Shorty' Feimster , tenor and left handed guitar, Charles Ernest Jones, slap bass. Mama Don't Allow Going to Chicago Blues Chinatown, My Chinatown Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well White Silver Sands Bugle Call Rag ..... Sweet Georgia Brown The Glory of Love Honeysuckle Rose The Honey Dipper Happy Days and Lonely Nights Tiger Rag Recorded October 21, 22 1958
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