Monday, May 29, 2023

 Washboard Doc's Hep Trio (Spivey LP 1021)

01. Flip, Flop and Fly - 3:37
02. Bright Light, Big City - 4:47
03. One, Two, Three, Four - 2:26
04. You Don't Have To Go - 4:35
05. Wait and See - 2:44
06. Shake, Rattle and Roll - 3:24
07. Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes - 3:33
08. Worried Life Blues - 3:15
09. Driftin' Blues - 3:22
10. Josephine - 2:50
11. I Told You I Love You - 4:23
12. Doc, Lucky and The Flash - 2:52

Personnel:

Washboard Doc - washboard
Lucky - voc., harmonica, guitar
Flash - voc., humazoo, washtub bass

Born Joseph Doctor, 8 September 1911, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, died 16 September 1988, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. A street musician from his arrival in New York in 1935, Washboard Doc was on the fringes of black musical life thereafter, claiming to have recorded alongside Ralph Willis and Sonny Terry. He certainly provided backing for Alec Seward, and also played, with varying degrees of appropriateness, on many Victoria Spivey albums. Full albums by his trio, featuring Lucky (b. Cab Lucky) and Flash (b. John Whitner), led to a European visit in 1980.

8 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing rare LPs!

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  2. thank you for these sides of the Spivey label!
    I had several 33 rpm LPs, but I couldn't find them now.
    Please continue if you have other Spivey albums

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    1. Yes, Monsieur Jujube, I'll post some more from time to time.

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    2. Thank you in advance! I remember several Lp's with the muddy waters blues band, and Buster Benton or Luther georgia boy Johnson? and others with Willie Dixon?

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