Bamboo Orchestra Discography of CDs

Bamboo Orchestra discography Recording information: Salon De Provence; Studio Nerves Productions. Bamboo Orchestra: Annabelle Cateau, Pascal Mari, Hamid ...

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Bamboo Orchestra CD discography This is part of Bluebird's The Secret History Of Rock & Roll series. The fifth volume in Bluebird's Secret History of Rock & Roll is a stretch, albeit a good one. The 24 tracks included here all focus on the Great Depression; in fact, they mirror the current wild ride that is Wall Street in an eerily ironic way. While the other four volumes in the series focused on blues and hard country music, this set is all over the place. It opens with comedian Eddie Cantor offering nearly vaudevillian comments on the stock market and slides through an early swing tune by Frank Crumit entitled "A Tale of the Ticker" before abruptly opening onto the original version of "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" by Leo Reisman. Also present are more obscure performers, such as the High Hatters, Alex Bartha, and Ramona & Roy Bargy (most if not all of them unheard of since these recordings were first issued). But Fiddlin' John Carson makes an appearance with "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Them All," Uncle Dave Macon is here with his classic "All in Down and Out Blues," and the collection also features Lane Hardin's "California Desert Blues," Woody Guthrie's "Dusty Old Dust," Reverend J.M. Gates (now famous for his "Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting" on the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music) with "President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend," and an early Sonny Boy Williamson tune, "Welfare Store Blues." Much of the humor here is black, the blues are darker still, and the anger ...