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Here’s one of the things that’s helping me pass the time, one of the best things I’ve heard in a long while.
Jesse Thomas started recording at the end of the 1920s and continued till just before his death in 1995. As we don’t hear about either of them today, I found the information that he was the less-well-known brother of Ramblin’ Thomas a little ironic. He’s worth knowing about. He was also Lafayette Thomas’s uncle.*
All his records are good, but I’m enraptured by the 5 songs on the end of this album. Songs 24 to 28 were recorded in 1963.
His two main albums were released posthumously. There are some songs from early in his career on Document Records.
*His nephew Lafayette Thomas is very much worth knowing about.
There’s another Jesse Thomas, born in 1937, who recorded New Orleans-style music—not him.
Don D.
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