Rough Guide to Hokum Blues / Various: Rough Guide To Hokum Blues (Vinyl LP)

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Hokum was a style showing a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light hearted. With it's use of clever and suggestive innuendo, this risqué style was extremely popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s and it's influence has remained part of the blues ever since. Barbecue Bob: Honey Your Going Too Fast, Big Bill Broonzy: Hokum Stomp, Bessie Smith: Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Papa Charlie Jackson: Shake That Thing, Lucille Bogan: Barbecue Bess, Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon: Can't You Wait Till You Get Home, Noah Lewis' Jug Band: Selling the Jelly, Bo Carter: Cigarette Blues, Allen Brothers: Bow Wow Blues, Ma Rainey: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Dallas String Band with Coley Jones: Hokum Blues, Blind Lemon Jefferson: Black Snake Moan, Tampa Red ; Georgia Tom: It's Tight Like That