Basement Blues
By:
April 21, 2011
Eighty years ago today…
On April 21, 1931, jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright Noble Sissle visited the Brunswick Records studio in Chicago to record three sides: W.C. Handy’s “Basement Blues (Low-Downer Than Any Low-Down Blues)” was one of them.
Its lyrics (“Lots of lowbrows [and] highbrows, I’m telling you the facts”) appeal to us; the song is terrific. Check it out:
The Basement Blues by HILOBROW
