Red's Birthday-Mississippi Mud

by Drizzz

I celebrated Red's birthday by listening to the Charleston Chasers- part of the old lp boxset, "Thesaurus of Classic Jazz". I think Thesaurus is used here as meaning "treasury", a very apt title when the set came out. Anyway, it has a great instrumental version of Mississippi Mud, featuring a fine solo by Fud Livingston. My old copy of Rust only lists the version with Scrappy Lambert vocals, recorded the same day and having the same matrix number. That version appears on the Timeless cd Charleston Chasers Vol. 1. And for the record, Harry Barris is the only composer credited on this one as well!

Posted on May 9, 2012, 4:11 PM

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