Time: 59:25
Size: 136.0 MB
Styles: Classic Female blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front
[3:39] 1. Any Women's Blues
[2:55] 2. Graveyard Dream Blues
[2:46] 3. Weary Way Blues
[2:50] 4. Ida Cox's Lawdy, Lawdy Blues
[2:42] 5. Moanin' Groanin' Blues
[2:48] 6. Come Right In
[2:52] 7. I've Got The Blues For Rampart Street
[2:52] 8. Graveyard Dream Blues
[3:04] 9. Mama Doo Shee Blues
[3:16] 10. Worried Mama Blues
[2:59] 11. So Soon This Morning Blues
[3:01] 12. Mailman Blues
[2:58] 13. Confidential Blues
[2:50] 14. Bear-Mash Blues
[2:54] 15. Last Time Blues
[2:59] 16. Worried Any How Blues
[2:51] 17. Chicago Monkey Man Blues
[2:58] 18. Mean Papa Turn Your Key
[3:09] 19. Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But!
[2:53] 20. Worried In Mind Blues
Ida Cox was one of the most talented of the classic blues singers of the 1920s. This Black Swan CD has 20 of her first 32 recordings and, although one regrets that it is not a "complete" series (hopefully the dozen other titles will be reissued by Black Swan eventually), the music is consistently enjoyable and timeless. In fact, quite a few of the lyrics (many of which were written by Cox) were later permanently "borrowed" by Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams; the first stanza of "Goin' to Chicago" was taken from "Chicago Monkey Man Blues" and "Bear-Mash Blues" has a couple of Williams' best lines. When one considers that the music on this CD is taken from 1923-24, it can certainly be considered ahead of its time! Most of the musicians backing Ida Cox are excellent, particularly pianist Lovie Austin and (on five numbers) cornetist Tommy Ladnier and clarinetist Jimmy O'Bryant. The recording quality (even with some surface noise) has been greatly cleaned up for this reissue and Cox's singing is very easy to understand. Although uncrowned, Ida Cox (who after retiring in 1945 came back for a final recording in 1961) can still communicate to today's listeners, something than can be said about very few other singers from 1923. ~Scott Yanow
The Uncrowned Queen Of The Blues mc
The Uncrowned Queen Of The Blues zippy