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Thread #5212   Message #30033
Posted By: Brian Hoskin
04-Jun-98 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: Acoustic bottleneck blues
Subject: RE: Acoustic bottleneck blues
Murray, The actual song 'Kokomo Blues' was recorded in Indianapolis in June 1928 by Scrapper Blackwell.

Then Jack Kelly recorded 'Ko-Ko-Mo blues' in Aug. 1933.

James 'Kokomo' Arnold recorded Old Original Kokomo Blues (He took the name from a brand of coffee) in Sept. 1934 in Chicago.

Also Freddie Spruell recorded 'Mister Freddie's Kokomo Blues' in Chicago in April 1935.

How's that for blues trivia?!

Brian