Document's Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1929-1930) wraps up a year in the life of Tampa Red, finding the Chicago bluesman recording a parade of blues, including "Chicago Moan Blues" and "Whiskey Drinkin' Blues." He also takes on several tracks of lighthearted hokum ("I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?," "Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here"), along with the traditional standard "Corrine, Corrina." Thom Owens
Abridged from this album’s original booklet notes. You might call it a period of transition, for after a fulminate start with their success of “It’s Tight Like That” and a period of follow-ups, the duo of Tampa Red and Georgia Tom gradually left the “hokum” genre and concentrated more and more on two easy things: the swinging, jazz-influenced up-tempo pieces like Easy Rider, and they got deeper and deeper into the real slow blues numbers, exploring several aspects of blues playing, and it is plain to hear that especially Tampa Red was getting more and more self confident in his playing refining his guitar style to a degree that he really became a champion, or in other words, a “guitar wizard”. The very first title included here, I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone (also known as “Easy Rider Blues), shows him as a leader of a small band that foreshadows his later “Chicago Five“. The flip side of this song was Come On Mama, Do That Dance it becomes evident that the swinging impetus of the two records comes not from the bass and washboard accompaniment, but from Tampa’s guitar. The same can be said for another track called Mama Don’t Allow to a degree that the listener doesn’t miss any rhythm instruments. Another side to Tampa Red‘s playing is revealed in the slow blues numbers such as Moanin’ Heart Blues, Chicago Moan Blues or I.C. Moan Blues. The moaning is not accomplished by his vocals, as is done by so many other blues singers, but by his guitar. Tampa is able to hold long notes with his slide, and then bend them in long melody bows. The two tracks Dying Mercy Blues and Black Hearted Blues have fine piano accompaniment, the later by Bill O’Bryant, a boogie specialist, plays the accompaniment. DOCD-5075
Tracklist :
1 Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band– I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone? 2:45
Bass – Bill Johnson
Guitar – Tampa Red
Piano – Georgia Tom Dorsey
Vocals – Frankie Jaxon
Washboard [Prob.] – Jasper Taylor
2 Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band– Come On, Mama, Do That Dance 2:48
Bass – Bill Johnson
Guitar – Tampa Red
Piano – Georgia Tom Dorsey
Vocals – Frankie Jaxon
Washboard [Prob.] – Jasper Taylor
3 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Friendless Blues 3:05
Bass [Poss.] – Bill Johnson
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
4 Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band– Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here 3:11
Kazoo, Jug – Unknown Artist
Piano [Prob.] – Cow Cow Davenport
Vocals – Frankie Jaxon
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Washboard [Prob.] – Jasper Taylor
5 Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band– Saturday Night Scrontch 3:12
Guitar – Tampa Red
Kazoo, Jug – Unknown Artist
Piano [Prob.] – Cow Cow Davenport
Vocals – Frankie Jaxon
Washboard [Prob.] – Jasper Taylor
6 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here 2:53
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
7 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Strewin' Your Mess 2:48
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
8 Tampa Red "The Guitar Wizard"– Dying Mercy Blues 3:07
Piano [Prob.] – Romeo Nelson
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
9 Jenny Pope– Whiskey Drinkin' Blues 3:12
Guitar – Tampa Red
Piano – Georgia Tom Dorsey
Vocals – Jenny Pope
10 Jenny Pope– Doggin' Me Around Blues 3:04
Guitar – Tampa Red
Piano – Georgia Tom
11 Tampa Red– Worried Man Blues 3:17
Piano – Georgia Tom
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
12 Tampa Red– Mrs. Baker's Blues 3:10
Piano – Georgia Tom
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
13 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Corrine Corrina 2:57
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
14 Georgia Tom, Tampa Red And Frankie Jaxon (The Black Hill Billies)– Kunjine Baby 3:05
Vocals – Frankie Jaxon
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
15 Tampa Red– That Stuff You Sell 2:17
Piano – Georgia Tom
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
16 Tampa Red– Station Time Blues 3:02
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
17 Tampa Red "The Guitar Wizard"– Moanin' Heart Blues 2:48
Guitar – Tampa Red
18 Tampa Red "The Guitar Wizard"– Chicago Moan Blues 3:15
Guitar – Tampa Red
19 Tampa Red– Black Hearted Blues 2:57
Piano – Bill O'Bryant
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
20 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– But They Got It Fixed Right On 2:54
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
21 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Corinne Corinna No. 2 2:43
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
22 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– The Dirty Dozen No. 2 3:14
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
23 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– I. C. Moan Blues 2:58
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
Vocals, Piano – Georgia Tom
24 Tampa Red And Georgia Tom– Cryin' Shame Blues 3:04
Vocals – Georgia Tom
Vocals, Guitar – Tampa Red
