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Flashbacks
# 1 - High & Low / Drugsongs 1917-1944
TRIKONT US-0275
compiled by: Werner Pieper - publisher from media experiments and counterculture since many years
CD in Digipak with detailed Booklet in german and english
150 highlights from the vast pool of American jazz, blues, folk and popular music in the 30s and 40s. Newly selected and arranged according to various themes.
While, at the time, this music was banned and brandished as indecent in most of Europe, in America it represented the tentative birth of a new culture: pop music!
Being spread and facilitated by the radio and newly emerging record companies, this music had an immediate national impact.
The initial formation phase of the modern mass culture was nurtured by an almost infinite reservoir of live music and by an array of very gifted musicians, the intensity and diversity of who probably still remains unique. The clubs in many cities were their arenas of apprenticeship and they were encouraged by an enthusiastic and competent audience, which actively participated in the creation of its own music.
Many of these precious pieces tell a story of an America in the midst of her worst economic crisis and World War II. A story of Americans torn between depression and hope. Americans, who asked themselves why they should die in a distant war, which was not really their business. These songs then also reflect the lifestyles and the wishes of many ordinary Americans. They constituted a solid basis for the struggle between freedom and dictatorship.
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Tracklist
 1. INK SPOTS,THE: That Cat Is High [02:53]
2. DUPREE,CHAMPION JACK: Junker's Blues [02:40]
3. GIBSON,HARRY "THE HIPSTER": Who Put the Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphys Ovaltine [03:04]
4. BLUE LU BARKER: Don't You Make Me High [02:35]
5. KANSAS JOE AND MEMPHIS MINNIE: I'm Wild About My Stuff [02:56]
6. STUFF SMITH & HIS ONYX CLUB BOYS: You're A Viper [03:13]
7. McKINNEY COTTON PICKERS: Selling That Stuff [02:43]
8. CLEIGHTON,PETER WITH BLIND JOHN DAVIS: Moonshine Man Blues [02:55]
9. DESMOND,FLORENCE: Cigarettes,Cigars [03:22]
10. MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND: Minnie The Moochers Wedding Day [03:01]
11. CALLOWAY,CAB: The Ghost Of Smokey Joe [02:44]
12. WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS: Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee [03:11]
13. SPIVEY,VICTORIA & JOHNSON,LONNIE: Dope Head Blues [03:13]
14. FITZGERALD,ELLA & WEBB,CHICK&HISORCHESTRA: Wacky Dust [03:02]
15. WHITE,BUKKA: Fixin' To Die Blues [02:45]
16. MEMPHIS JUG BAND: Cocaine Habit Blues [02:48]
17. LEE,BARON & THE BLUE RHYTHM BAND: Reefer Man [02:48]
18. JUSTICE,DICK: Cocaine [03:01]
19. MARTIN,ASA: Jake Walk Papa [03:10]
20. ARMSTRONG,LOUIS: Kickin' The Gong Around [03:12]
21. HOWARD,ROSETTA & THE HARLEM HAMFATS: The Candy Man [02:10]
22. NOBLE,RAY & THE NEW MAYFAIR ORCHESTRA: Repeal The Blues [02:14]
23. KRUPA,GENE & HIS ORCHESTRA: Feeling High And Happy [02:41]
24. BRADY,JEAN & BROONZY,BIG BILL: Knockin' Myself Out [03:11]
25. PAYNE,HERBERT: Smoke Clouds [01:38]
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Press Reviews:
Flashbacks: Roots Magazine
This is German label Trikont's new series of imaginative and nicely packaged re-issues of out-of-copyright US 78s from the first half of the last century. What they have in common is good remastering, digipaks with extensive notes in German and English (the latter excellent by Keith Chandler, the former by Werner Pieper would need a German reader to judge but look just as informatively dense), and around two dozen tracks apiece. [read more]
Flashbacks: The Wire
For fanatical completism and sheer bizarreness (a country label run by a transsexual - you would never get that sort of thing in Nashville) Germany has the reissue market cornered. After brillant collections of Vietnamese buskers and Bavarian courtyard singing, the Munichbased Trikont label stakes its claim for greatness with its Flashbacks series. [read more]
Flashbacks: The London Times
The Collection FLASHBACKS - Hot & Sexy is a superb selection of prewar aural sex. It`s a part of the wonderful FLASHBACKS-series Vol.1 - Vol. 6. .
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