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Muscle Shoals Blues

Handy's Memphis Blues Band

Bobby Lee, Edward Wyer, George Higgans, George Williams, Ike Hatch, James Osborne, Jim Turner, Johnny Dunn, Paul Wyer, Robert Young, Sy Moore, W. C. Handy

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Recorded in New York City during March 1922 featuring W.C. Handy cornet & leader, Johnny Dunn cornet, George Williams trombone, James Osborne and Robert Young clarinet & alto sax, Jim Turner, Edward Wyer, and Paul Wyer violins, Bobby Lee piano, George Higgans guitar, Ike Hatch banjo, and Sy Moore drums.

*"Muscle Shoals Blues" was composed by George W. Thomas.

During a recording trip to New York organized by Paramount Records the W.C. Handy band performed this important early blues composition written by pianist and songwriter George W. Thomas. Thomas was a one-time partner of Clarence Williams in the music publishing business back in New Orleans. In 1916 he published "The New Orleans Hop Scop Blues" a twelve-bar blues credited as one of the earliest Boogie-woogie piano pieces, thus establishing himself as a serious composer. George's younger brother Hersal Thomas often worked playing piano in the sporting houses of Storyville before his untimely death in 1926.