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The Original 1916 Hesitation Blues presented by Zefren

When this song was recorded Ragtime was still the King of popular music, but ragtimes complex harmonies and concrete structure was giving way to the next phase of popular music. The animal dance cr...  
 
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This is a video response to Alabama Jubilee (1916) PRINCE BAND in ragtime
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patoman881 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Sounds very CLEAN:-)
CraiggerWhite (3 months ago) Show Hide
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swumtalnbout!!!!
zo2imus (6 months ago) Show Hide
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I tried to correlate W. C. Handy's published sheet-music of "Hesitation Blues" with this music and I found no correlation. Is this "Hesitation Blues" by somebody else?
Zefrenm (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Hesitation Blues One Step By Billy Smythe. The Tune was well known blues tune before Billy, and Handy penned thier own verisons.
pantsmatants (7 months ago) Show Hide
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A far cry from Hot Tuna's rendition! Thanks for sharing.
LoyalTideFan (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Whatever happened to the tuba in popular music? Very nice recording. Thanks for posting. Complete with staring at the record going round and round and round and round and....
vicbiver (8 months ago) Show Hide
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interesting how guitar transcriptions follow this.
otterhouse (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Very, very nice record. Gave the link on twitter.......

"otterhouse" rolf
reikiangel24 (10 months ago) Show Hide
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PRETTY cool!! (o;
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This is a real gem. One of the very best brass band renditions of the period, and, though quite bluesy already, one of my favorite records of the Ragtime era. Thank you for posting this. What about uploading the flip side (Kansas City Blues)? It is comparably good!

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