Tuba Skinny in Philly '22- I’ve Been Blue Since You Went Away by Papa Charlie McCoy (1930)

Commodore Barry Club, Philadelphia- Sept. 2, 2022
PUP Jazz Fest
Shaye Cohn - Cornet
Erika Lewis - Drum/Vocals
Craig Florey- Clarinet
Barnabus Jones - Trombone
Greg Sherman - Guitar/Vocals
Todd Burdick- Tuba/Sousaphone
Robin Rapuzzi - Washboard
Max Bien Kahn - Banjo, guitar
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Original recording- • Papa Charlie McCoy- I'...
Papa Charlie McCoy-
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, he was delta blues guitar, mandolin player and songwriter. He began playing in the early 1920s, in the Mississippi area with his band, The Mississippi Hot Footers and later joined Bo Carters' Mississippi Mud Steppers. In 1928, he first recorded in Memphis in 1928, in an all-star session that saw him backing Rosie Mae Moore, Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey. Later that year, he played on the first recording of "Corrine Corrina" with Bo Chatmon and Walter Vincson. In addition, he recorded his own written versions of "The Jackson Stomp", "The Lonesome Train, That Took My Girl From Town" and "The Vicksburg Stomp". By the mid-1930s, he followed his brother guitar play Joe McCoy to Chicago, joined the Harlem Hamfats, where he blended his mandolin style with their swing rhythms and jazz horns. He also contributed mandolin to recordings by Sonny Boy Williamson, Peetie Wheatstraw, Big Bill Broonzy and Will Weldon. He again teamed up with his brother in Big Joe's Washboard Band and Big Joe and His Rhythm in the early 1940's. In the late 1940s, he was institutionalized with neurosyphilis and died six months later in Chicago, Illinois.

[@otpkd]

Go the dancers! With a beat like this, how can one not want to dance?

[@sigvardronnholm]

All the best Tuba/.

[@jeannineguenther6755]

I just love jazz. We don’t hear this music in the Midwest

[@PopsCoffee]

Thanks, John. Yes, 'I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away' is a 32-bar a-a-b-a song, composed by Papa Charlie McCoy in 1930. It is sometimes given the title 'Please Come Back To Me'. Played here in A flat. Interesting to see Shaye setting up Robin's 32 bars at 03:29.

[@dreamprescription8852]

This be the best yet!!!!

[@charlescopes]

Great stuff

[@robertduis6730]

Super Washboard SOLO!

[@emiliolopezify]

Thank you so much.
I love this tune so much.

[@davidmccabe4041]

Lovely to see what appears to be an irish country scene in background...and perhaps an irish flag to the right....great music david mccabe dublin ireland

[@JohnDodds36]

Concert was in the Commodore Barry Club, the Irish Center.

[@JazzCountryMusic]

John: Thanks!

[@rosspatton8306]

Where is Jason?? The great Banjoist that played with Tuba Skinny for years? I haven't seen him with Tuba Skinny for a long time now?

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

😁

[@davenolan2762]

Simply superb!! Have been following them for sometime but cannot find anything to play outside You Tube. Have they released any CDs for sale? Tried on Amazon Italy (I live there) but nothing 😞

[@JohnDodds36]

They have CDs for sale at tubaskinny.com

[@hanslarsson3445]

Fine performance! However, the cornet seems to be a bit too far from the microphone to hear Shaye´s excellent phrasing.

[@hermanncornet8143]

Sie sind alle Grandios

[@Oj-Oj]

Erica, Boy or girl?

[@user-kc5re7lw7q]

Girl!!!...Stu......

[@kittbarnes8121]

If you mean the boy baby she conceived yes it was a boy ,odd comment from you.