Songs We Taught Your Mother: original Prestige + Test pressing
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Item Description: "Songs We Taught Your Mother" on Prestige Bluesville BV 1052. Although Alberta Hunter, who had briefly come out of retirement, gets first billing on this CD reissue, in reality she shares the spotlight with two other veterans of the 1920s: Lucille Hegamin and Victoria Spivey. Each of the singers is featured on four songs apiece while backed by such top players as clarinetist Buster Bailey, trombonist J.C. Higginbottham, and Cliff Jackson or Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano. Hunter is in superior form on such numbers as "You Gotta Reap Just What You Sow" and "I Got a Mind to Ramble," although she would soon be out of music for another 15 years, continuing her work as a nurse. Hegamin (who had not recorded since 1932) was having a brief last hurrah, despite sounding good, and Spivey, reviving her "Black Snake Blues," would soon be launching her own Spivey label.
Pressing: original blue label release in original cover. Also includes a test pressing of the same record in plain sleeve.
Condition: Vinyl of original pressing near mint; cover top seam split about 1/3 the way, some shelf wear and rubbed corners. test pressing has some light marks and plays with occasional background noise; Someone traced the deep groove of the test label with blue inc and wrote in artists names.
Shipping: $6.00 media within USA. If you win more than one item, I will combine and reduce shipping accordingly. All LPs are carefully packed in mailers made for record shipment. LPs are shipped outside the cover in audiophile grade inner sleeve.
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