For your listening pleasure, two dozen musical selections: Breakdowns & Frolics, Folk Songs & Blues, Parodies & Imitations, Double-Entendres, Jubilees, Minstreal Sketches & Tunes of Tin pan Alley. Dedicated to America’s favourite domestic fowl..The Chicken!! As rendered by Fiddlers, Bluesmen, Songsters, Whistlers, Jug Blowers, String Bands, Vocal Quartets, & Novelty Orchestras, both rural and urban from the golden era of recorded sound! 24 Rare recordings digitally remastered. CD comes with a 20 page full colour booklet containing detailed song descriptions. Complete discography and a wealth of vintage photographs and illustrations.
Artists include Grayson & Whitter, the Beale Street Sheiks, Leake County Revelers, Cliff Carlisle, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Riley Puckett, Teddy Bunn and many more!!! “All birds look like chicken to me, Quails look like fat hens to me, Folks raise em up for a prize, Knife and fork makes em all one size” – Sweet Papa Stovepipe, 1926. “Sam Green was a man who loved chicken, Better than he did his wife. He would take every chance for a chicken meal, He would even risk his life.” - Utica Institute Jubilee Singers, 1929.
Artists include Grayson & Whitter, the Beale Street Sheiks, Leake County Revelers, Cliff Carlisle, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Riley Puckett, Teddy Bunn and many more!!! “All birds look like chicken to me, Quails look like fat hens to me, Folks raise em up for a prize, Knife and fork makes em all one size” – Sweet Papa Stovepipe, 1926. “Sam Green was a man who loved chicken, Better than he did his wife. He would take every chance for a chicken meal, He would even risk his life.” - Utica Institute Jubilee Singers, 1929.