Mobile Strugglers

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The Mobile Strugglers & The Louis James String Band American Music AMCD-14 Two black groups, one from Alabama, the other from Louisiana, one exuberant, the other more consciously restrained, separated in recording time by fifteen years. Violin, guitar and bass are the core instruments in common, but despite the inclusion of Memphis Blues in the repertory of both, there is little otherwise to bond them stylistically. And although a small-print cover logo promotes this release as 'The String Bands', in reality the two groups sit side-by-side merely for convenience of running time. The bulk of the Mobile Strugglers material makes its public debut here. Of their seven titles the only coupling issued near to the date of recording - on a 78 rpm disc with a pressing of fewer than a hundred copies - was Fattening Frogs for Snakes (surely the weirdest occupation ever to be immortalised in wax) and Memphis Blues. These have been available in reissue for many years, on 'The Country Fiddlers' (Roots RL-316), but it is a pleasure to hear them with improved sound. And it's a delight and a wonder that material unheard outside of the collector's purview for nearly half a century should continue to surface. All the Louis James trio items were formerly available in a ninety-nine-copy-only pressing (to avoid paying UK tax), and presumably there were no further out takes. Everything here, then, is as rare as the proverbial hen's teeth. Items in their repertory such as Don't Bring Lu

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Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949

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Blues Masters, Vol. 10: Blues Roots

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Mobile Strugglers - Louis James' String Band

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Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African American Fiddlers 1926-1949

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Violin, Sing The Blues For Me

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Blues Masters - Disc 10 - Blues Roots

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Blues Masters Vol.10 Blues Roots

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Alabama: Black Country Dance Bands (1924-1949)

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Alabama Black Country Dance Bands

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Blues Masters, Volume 10: Blues Roots

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Violin, Sing the Blues for Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949

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Blues Masters - Vol 10 [Blues Roots]

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