Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Bigtone Records
Track List
- Wake Up! Chill’un Wake Up!
- When My Dreamboat Comes Home
- Jazz Me Blues
- Ooh Daddy Blues
- Nobody But My Baby
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- Steamboat Keep Rockin’
- Lonesome All Alone And Blue
- Ghost Of The St. Louis Blues
- Chili Blues
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Baby O’ Mine
- Headin’ For The River
- Whoop It Up
Notes
New Orleans-based Bad Penny Pleasuremakers ,Matt Bell & Joy Patterson, met on a blind date shortly after Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, and have playing music as a duo and with full bands ever since. They play ragtime, acoustic blues, country blues & traditional jazz from pre-WW2 America, with a focus on Louisiana history and roots.
This album is a collection of songs that came together during the pandemic and was recorded shortly after lockdown in several sessions at Bigtone Records. These songs became a lifeline during the long months of isolation and recording them is a celebration of the resiliency of music and life.
The Album title, “Hello Bluebird!” is a reference to Josephine Baker’s 1926 recording of that song. To us it is synonymous with Bye Bye Blackbird, a song of personal struggle and universal loss, as well as the ray of hope that only music can bring.
