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- Artist: Clarence Williams Jug + Washboard Bands
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- Release Date: November 13, 2006
- Total Time: 76:14
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
Clarence Williams made his living as a music publisher, pianist, accompanist and organizer of recording ensembles during the 1920s and '30s. His variously sleepy, scruffy or gritty little jazz bands were usually driven by cornet, clarinet, tuba, jug and washboard players. Whoop It Up! is the Document label's first installment in a projected Clarence Williams retrospective presenting his best recordings grouped according to instrumentation. The star of this volume is Missouri-born washboard wizard Floyd Casey, who rustles up a good head of steam on each of 25 tracks recorded for the Okeh, Brunswick, Columbia and Victor labels during 13 sessions that took place between January 29, 1927 and November 19, 1929. Note that unlike many previous Document issues, great care has obviously been taken to remaster these old records so they sound practically new. For best results, go directly to track seven, the third and best rendition of the "Cushion Foot Stomp." Clarence Williams consistently brought together many of the greatest performers in early jazz. Present on this compilation are cornetists King Oliver and Ed Allen; trumpeter Charlie Gaines; reedmen Buster Bailey and Arville Harris; tuba wrestler Cyrus St. Clair and composer/pianist James P. Johnson. The jug blowers seem to have been saved up for a different specially focused chapter in this exciting historical reissue series. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My Love | (2:39) | ||
| Candy Lips | (2:45) | ||
| Cushion Foot Stomp | (2:58) | ||
| P.D.Q. Blues | (2:53) | ||
| Anywhere Sweetie Goes (I'll Be There) | Clarence Williams, |
(2:58) | |
| Cushion Foot Stomp | Clarence Williams, |
(3:01) | |
| Cushion Foot Stomp | (3:21) | ||
| Take Your Black Bottom Outside | (3:02) | ||
| Yama Yama Blues | (2:51) | ||
| (Norfolk) Church Street Sobbin' Blues | (3:04) | ||
| Sweet Emmalina | (2:52) | ||
| Log Cabin Blues | (3:16) | ||
| Shake It Down | (2:56) | ||
| Red River Blues | (3:03) | ||
| Walk That Broad | (3:05) | ||
| Have You Ever Felt That Way? | (3:07) | ||
| Mississippi Blues (Home Town Toddle) | (3:11) | ||
| Steamboat Days | (3:19) | ||
| In Our Cottage of Love | (3:13) | ||
| Lazy Mama | (2:54) | ||
| High Society | (3:10) | ||
| Whoop It Up | (3:18) | ||
| You've Got to Give Me Some | (2:57) | ||
| I've Got What It Takes | (3:15) | ||
| You Don't Understand | (3:06) |
