Jackson stomp

[David M.]

Should this go in the Blues section? (possibly...)

Ok, I've been showing some Mississippi tunes around and the Sullivan's Holler thread started this, but I ran across this tune Jackson Stomp by the Mississippi Mud Steppers on the below site.

Roots Music 78's listening room #In alphabetical order, so scroll to the J's. #This is a cool site, by the way. #Lots to download, including the Sull.Hollow.

Anyone else play Jackson Stomp? #I started picking it out last night and have it almost worked out. #It's not hard, just kinda quirky. #In key of B. #Sounds like a banjo mandolin to me. #Love the guitar runs.

[Jim Garber]

I played in a band years ago and we did JS. I played this Weymann banjo mandolin I have and one fiddler doubled on std Gibson mandolin and the other fiddler switched to bowed cello. We actually played it in a band contest and came in second.

Jim

[mandolooter]

I dont play it but its a fav of mine....I guess i should!

[psann]

After listening to this, I headed straight to the mandozine site to see if they had tab for it. I know what I am going to be working on the rest of the afternoon.

[Gary S]

Great tune that Jackson Stomp. I play it in the key of A.
Curtis Buckhannon also has recorded this tune on mandolin.
It is played alot in New Orleans. I think they call it Messin Around, a great boogie woogie piano tune.

Man your hittin on some good music...Gary

[wah]

The jug band I play in does that song regularly - it's a favorite of the banjo players' who kicks it off. Way fun tune.

Cool website!

Wayne

[JVESEY]

Charlie McCoy is the king of the Banjolin. He's my hero.

His stuff with Bo Carter (The Mud Steppers) and his brother Kansas Joe (Harlem Hamfats) is all amazing. The Jackson Stomp is actually and old piano piece by Cow Cow Davenport. The Cow Cow Blues.

Charlie recorded it with Bo Carter twice. Three times is you count "It Ain't No Lie" with Kansas Joe. The version I do in my band is "That Lonesome Train That Took My Baby Away" which is nothing like "The Train That Took My Girl From Town" that Doc Watson and others do. It's the only lyric Charlie wrote, and it's a keeper.

The other great Charlie and Bo tune, The Vicksburg Stomp was done my David Long and Mike Compton on their recent record, Stomp.

If you like to hear us do Lonesome Train, check out our myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/thesecondfiddles

[bluesmandolinman]

Charlie McCoy is the king of the Banjolin. He's my hero.

he is my hero too but I think he was playing a National steel body mandolin not a banjolin

at least it sounds like this and also Carl Martin said it in an interview .... on the other hand the only known photo of Charlie is with a Washburn (?) flat mandolin

anyways his mando style is great

Charlie McCoy

[Cedartop]

Learned this one during a Steve James blues mandolin workshop. He taught it in C. It is a lot of fun even if it is only 11 bars.

[DryBones]

David,
Great website! Looks like I will need a few days to fill my iPod now! I even found a song called "Dry Bones"

[Gary S]

I believe County Records put out on LP(I am not sure if has been re-released on cd) Old Time tunes from Mississippi, not sure of the exact title. This contains Sullivans Hollow and a cache of other great material that you may be interested in...Gary

[a12]

Jackson Stomp was originally recorded in A
by the Mississippi Mud Steppers
and the New Lost City Ramblers also recorded it in
A on their all instrumental album. I play it in A.

It's good to have a tune like this in A rather than C.

[Steve P]

Hi Bill,
The original LP was County 529. It can also be found on the CD, "Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps & Blues; Vintage Mandolin Music (1927-1946)." This was one of the sources for my ragtime fiddle/mando book. I found the "Jackson Stomp" to be in Bb. Of course, the key could have been affected by the vagaries of old recording techniques, etc. I decided a long time ago to play it in the key of G, where it sounds just fine on my old Gibson mando. Here are several more recommended recordings: 1) "Early Mandolin Classics, Vol.1," Rounder CD 1050; 2) "East Texas Serenaders,Complete Works," DOCD-8031; 3) "Ridin' In An Old Model-T, Toddles, Wobbles, Rags and Blues," County 548; 4) "Ragtime 2, The Country," Smithsonian Folkways FWRBF-18
Cheers, Steve

[JVESEY]

The original is in fact in (close to) Bb. MAny play it out of G or A. However, I'm pretty sure it was played out of the C position. The key to me, is the turn around which plays out of the sixth's at the 5th through seventh fret. Most of the rest of the tune sounds close in the other registers, but the turn around does not sound correct anywhere but on the D and A strings. IMHO.

[a12]

I think maybe the instrument was tuned down, so it came out in A~Bb range.
It seems pretty natural in C position.

My source was the Arhoolie, Old Timey, #100,
"The String Bands", vol 1 side 1, track #8
album released in the ~60s.

[David M.]

Hmmm, this has me wondering if I should transpose it from the B that the recording is in to A... Shouldn't be hard.

[hoffmannia2k7]

Vicksburg Stomp just came on on my ipod before and I love it. I think I have a version of Jackson Stomp on a Joe Bussard tape. How about Vicksburg Stomp sounding just like bluegrass stomp, do you think they ripped off bill monroe, har har har.

[hoffmannia2k7]

btw, DRY BONES is one of the best songs ever.

The deaf could hear, and the dumb could talk.
I saw i saw the light from heaven shining all around

[makoto]

I was looking at Jackson Stomp last night in Rich DelGrosso's book "Mandolin Blues". He has it in A. It is also in Steve Parker's book "Ragtime for Fiddle and Mandolin", in G with a note that it was originally in Bflat. Both are great books with lots of good music, and both come with cd's so you can hear what the tunes should sound like.