Various – 1917-1944 – High & Low: Drug Songs Jazz Country Blues Swing Music Album Compilation
Label:Trikont – US-0275
Series:Flashbacks – # 1
Format:CD, Compilation
Country:Germany
Released:Oct 16, 2000
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Country Blues, Chicago Blues, Swing, Vocal
Tracklist
1 The Ink Spots– That Cat Is High
2 Champion Jack Dupree– Junker’s Blues
3 Harry “The Hipster” Gibson– Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?
4 Blue Lu Barker– Don’t You Make Me High
5 Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie– I’m Wild About My Stuff
6 Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys– You’re A Viper
7 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers– Selling That Stuff
8 Peter Cleighton– Moonshine Man Blues
9 Florence Desmond– Cigarettes, Cigars
10 The Mills Blue Rhythm Band– Minnie The Moochers Wedding Day
11 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– The Ghost Of Smokey Joe
12 Waring’s Pennsylvanians– Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee
13 Victoria Spivey And Lonnie Johnson – Dope Head Blues
14 Chick Webb & His Orchestra And Ella Fitzgerald– Wacky Dust
15 Bukka White– Fixin’ To Die Blues
16 Memphis Jug Band– Cocaine Habit Blues
17 Baron Lee And The Blue Rhythm Band– Reefer Man
18 Dick Justice– Cocaine
19 Asa Martin– Jake Walk Papa
20 Louis Armstrong– Kickin’ The Gong Around
21 The Harlem Hamfats– The Candy Man
22 Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Dance Orchestra– Repeal The Blues
23 Gene Krupa And His Orchestra– Feeling High And Happy
24 Big Bill Broonzy– Knockin’ Myself Out
25 Herbert Payne – Smoke Clouds
Graphics – Hias Schaschko
Liner Notes – Keith Chandler, Werner Pieper
Mastered By – Andreas Koll, Bernd Windisch
Producer – Werner Pieper
Notes
Recording locations and dates:
1: – , Mar. 25, 1938
2: Chicago, Jun. 13, 1940
3: Los Angeles, Aug. 21, 1944
4: New York, Aug. 11, 1938
5: Chicago, Jun. 5, 1930
6: New York, Mar. 13, 1936
7: New York, Apr. 19, 1929
8: Chicago, Jul. 1, 1941
9: London, Feb. 23, 1933
10: New York, Apr. 28, 1932
11: New York, Mar. 28, 1939
12: New York, Feb. 24, 1932
13: New York, Oct. 28, 1927
14: New York, Aug. 17, 1938
15: Chicago, Mar. 8, 1940
16: Memphis, May 17, 1930
17: New York, Aug. 17, 1932
18: Chicago, May 20, 1929
19: Richmond, Apr. 5, 1933
20: Chicago, Jan. 25, 1932
21: Chicago, Oct. 21, 1938
22: – , Mar. 7, 1939
23: New York, Apr. 15, 1938
24: Chicago, Apr. 24, 1941
25: London, 1917
