Various Artists - Gennett Jazz (CD)

Richmond, Indiana's Gennett label didn't have the clout of Victor or Columbia-but a tour through this track list will tell you that they were a key player in early jazz recording. Check it out: Just Gone; Snake Rag King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; Kansas City Stomp; Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton; Ya Gotta Know How to Love Fess Williams; Wild Geese Blues Alberta Jones; My Baby State Street Ramblers; My Back to the Wall Irene Scruggs; Oh Baby Wolverine Orchestra; Bringing Home the Bacon Windy City Jazzers; How Could I Be Blue? Elvira Johnson, and more!

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Eccentric
2. Farewell Blues
3. Discontented Blues
4. Bugle Call Blues
5. Panama
6. Tiger Rag
7. Boo Hoo Hoo
8. Tiger Rag
9. Stop Your Kidding
10. You've Got to See Your Mama Every Night
11. Runnin' Wild
12. Nobody's Sweetheart
13. Unfortunate Blues
14. Jazz Me Blues
15. Oh Baby
16. Copenhagen
17. Riverboat Shuffle
18. Susie
19. Sensation
20. Lazy Daddy
21. Big Boy
22. Swingin' Down the Lane
23. Slue Foot
24. Bringing Home the Bacon
25. Hot Mittens
26. Charley My Boy
27. Steady Steppin' Papa

Disc: 2

1. Just Gone
2. Canal Street Blues
3. Mandy Lee Blues
4. I'm Going Away to Wear You Off My Mind
5. Chimes Blues
6. Weather Bird Rag
7. Dipper Mouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp)
8. Froggie Moore
9. Snake Rag
10. King Porter (A Stomp)
11. New Orleans (Blues) Joys
12. Grandpa's Spells (A Stomp)
13. Kansas City Stomp
14. Wolverine Blues (Joys)
15. The Pearls (A Stomp)
16. Terrible Blues
17. Santa Claus Blues
18. It's Breaking My Heart to Keep Away from You
19. Ya Gotta Know How to Love
20. Fourth Avenue Stomp
21. Barbecue Blues (F Sharp Blues)
22. Monte Carlo Joys
23. Twin Blues
24. Brown Jug Blues
25. Bass Blues

Disc: 3

1. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'
2. Early Every Morn
3. Make That Gravel Fly
4. Daddy What You Going to Do
5. War Horse Mama
6. You Don't Know My Mind Blues
7. 31st Street Blues
8. Pipe Dream Blues
9. I'm Drifting from You Blues
10. A Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time
11. How Could I Be Blue?
12. Numbers on the Brain
13. Blues Rode Me All Night Long
14. Lost Man Blues
15. You Used to Be Sugar Blues
16. Strange Woman's Dream
17. Wild Geese Blues
18. Red Beans and Rice
19. East Coast Blues
20. Working Man Blues
21. Fall or Summer Blues
22. Sport Model Mamma Blues
23. If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home
24. Laughin' Cryin' Blues
25. Midnight Blues (A Wee Hour Chant)
26. Triflin' Blues (Daddy Don't You Trifle on Me)

Disc: 4

1. My Baby
2. Pleasure Mad
3. Oriental Man
4. Some Do and Some Don't
5. Tack It Down
6. Endurance Stomp
7. Yearning and Blue
8. Someday You'll Know
9. Pass the Jug
10. Jelly Roll Stomp
11. You've Got What I Want
12. My Back to the Wall
13. Make Me Know It
14. Mandy
15. Hum All Your Troubles Away
16. It's Tight Like That
17. Some of These Days
18. Spirit of '49 Rag
19. Chicken Supper Strut
20. Mississippi Shivers
21. I Wonder Blues (I've Got the Wonder Blues)
22. Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland
23. Who Loved You Best
24. "E Flat" Blues (Sic)
25. Original Charleston Strut
26. Jazzin' Babies Blues
27. Twelfth Street Rag