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| Artist : Kokomo Arnold |
| Album : King of the bottleneck guitar (1934-1937) |
| Bitrate : 110 kbps avg |
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| Source : CD |
| Label : Black & Blue |
| Year : 1991 |
| Genre : Blues |
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| Rip date : 2008-01-08 |
| Store date : 1991-00-00 |
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| Encoder : LAME |
| Size : 59.50 megs |
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+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
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| 1. Milk Cow Blues 3:11 |
| 2. Old Original Kokomo Blues 2:54 |
| 3. Back To The Woods 3:04 |
| 4. Sagefield Woman Blues 3:04 |
| 5. Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues) 3:25 |
| 6. Sissy Man Blues 3:09 |
| 7. Front Door Blues (32 20 Blues) 3:25 |
| 8. Back Door Blues 3:26 |
| 9. The Twelves (Dirty Dozens) 3:11 |
| 10. Biscuit Roller Blues 3:14 |
| 11. Chain Gang Blues 3:05 |
| 12. How Long How Long Blues 3:14 |
| 13. Bo-Weavil Blues 3:07 |
| 14. Busy Bootin' 2:30 |
| 15. Policy Wheel Blues 2:57 |
| 16. Milk Cow Blues N░4 2:56 |
| 17. Model "T" Woman Blues 2:56 |
| 18. I'll Be Up Some Day 3:05 |
| 19. Mister Charlie 2:45 |
| 20. Back Fence Picket Blues 3:12 |
| 21. Wild Water Blues 3:16 |
| 22. Red Beans And Rice 3:05 |
| 23. Buddie Brown Blues (Rolling Time) 2:52 |
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| Kokomo Arnold (15 February 1901û8 November 1968) was an American blues |
| musician. |
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| Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Arnold received his |
| nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the |
| Decca label; it was a cover of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about |
| the Kokomo brand of coffee. A left-handed slide-guitarist, his intense |
| slide style of playing and rapid-fire vocal style set him apart from his |
| contemporaries. |
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| Having learned the basics of the guitar from his cousin John Wiggs, |
| Arnold began playing in the early 1920s as a sideline while he worked as |
| a farmhand in Buffalo, New York, and as a steelworker in Pittsburgh. In |
| 1929 he moved to Chicago and set up a bootlegging business, an activity |
| he continued throughout Prohibition. In 1930 Arnold moved south briefly, |
| and made his first recordings, "Rainy Night Blues" and "Paddlin' |
| Madeline Blues", under the name Gitfiddle Jim for the Victor label in |
| Memphis, Tennessee. He soon moved back to the bootlegging center of |
| Chicago, though he was forced to make a living as a musician after the |
| ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States |
| Constitution ending Prohibition in 1933. Kansas Joe McCoy heard him and |
| introduced him to Mayo Williams who was producing records for Decca. |
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| From his first recording for Decca on 10 September 1934 until his last |
| on 12 May 1938, Arnold made eighty-eight sides, seven of which remain |
| lost. Along with Peetie Wheatstraw and Bumble Bee Slim, he was a |
| dominant figure in Chicago blues circles. His major influence upon |
| modern music is, along with Peetie Wheatstraw, upon the seminal Delta |
| blues artist Robert Johnson, a musical contemporary. Johnson turned "Old |
| Original Kokomo Blues" into "Sweet Home Chicago", while another Arnold |
| song, "Sagefield Woman Blues", introduced the terminology "dust my |
| broom", which Johnson used as a song title himself. Arnold's "Milk Cow |
| Blues" was covered by Aerosmith on the 1977 album Draw The Line and |
| became "Milkcow Blues Boogie", performed by Elvis Presley. |
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| In 1938 Kokomo Arnold left the music business and began to work in a |
| Chicago factory. Rediscovered by blues researchers in 1962, he showed no |
| enthusiasm for returning to music to take advantage of the new explosion |
| of interest in the blues among young white audiences. |
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| He died of a heart attack in Chicago at the age of sixty-seven, and was |
| buried in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. |
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