Barrelhouse Blues cirque du freak or with his lady

or with his lady

that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building

yuckiest day of the year: Valentine's Day

Clementine's mom sure doesn't seem ready

Barrelhouse Blues cirque du freak or with his ladyIn the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't't been captured on location by these performers and