Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? (2001)

About this title: Afro-Creole-Choctaw-American pianist, vocalist, washboard percussionist, comedian, composer, producer, music publisher, accompanist, and bandleader Clarence Williams played a crucial role in the development of jazz and blues in New York City during the 1920s. Often using one-shot pseudonyms for his bands and combining players from New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago with the cream of Harlem's entertainment scene, Williams presided over an astonishing number and variety of blues and jazz recording sessions between the years 1921 and 1937. Williams had an uncanny ability to get his ... read more

Tracks:

1. Baby Won't You Please Come Home? [Warfield/Williams]
2. Gulf Coast Blues [Williams]
3. Wild Cat Blues [Waller/Williams]
4. Kansas City Man Blues [Johnson/Williams]
5. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do [Grainger/Prince/Wil]
6. Everybody Loves My Baby [Palmer/Williams]
7. Mandy, Make Up Your Mind [Clarke/Johnston/Mey]
8. Cake Walking Babies from Home [Smith/Troy/Williams]
9. Papa De-Da-Da [Todd/Williams]
10. Gravier Street Blues [Williams]
11. Candy Lips (I'm Stuck on You) [Jackson]
12. Cushion Foot Stomp [Williams]
13. Red Hot Flo from Ko-Ko-Mo [Blake/Bager]
14. Church Street Sobbin' Blues [Lada/Cowley/William]
15. Wild Flower Rag [Williams]
16. West End Blues [King Oliver/William]
17. Organ Grinder Blues [Williams]
18. In the Bottle Blues [Lang/Williams]
19. Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me) [Goodwin/Hanley/MacD]
20. Whoop It Up [Jackson]
21. I've Found a New Baby [Palmer/Williams]
22. Worn Out Blues [Rogalle]
23. He Wouldn't Stop Doin' It [Hill/Williams]
24. Shout, Sister, Shout [Brymm/Hill/Williams]
25. Dispossessin' Me [Williams/Bishop/Sch]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.