The Roots of Hip Hop [PA] [Digipak]

Performer: Various Artists
Artist: Ethel Brown
Engineer: Dr. Harry Oster
Producer: Jay Miller; Hellhound MC (Compilation)
Distributor: NAIL Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Dolores Hawkins & the Hambone Kids (vocals, whistling); Slim Gaillard, Ashton Savoy, Willie Eason, Big Bill Broonzy (vocals, guitar); Ethel Brown, Katie Webster (vocals, piano); Bam Brown, Billy Boyd (vocals); Eugene Ford, Jane Lucas (rap vocals); Roy Crain, SR. (tenor); R.B. Robinson, Thomas L. Bruster (baritone); Eddie Taylor, Herman Mitchell, Tampa Red (guitar); Snooky Pryor (harmonica); Jewell L. Grant, Jimmie Lunceford, Marshall Royal, Riley Hampton (alto saxophone); Leon Washington, Earl Caruthers, Quedillas Martin, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis , Big Jay McNeely (tenor saxophone); Floyd Turnham, McKinley Easton (baritone saxophone); Flip Ricard, George Orendorff, John Anderson , Sonny Cohn (trumpet); John Avant (trombone); Moses Allen (tuba); Jimmie O'Brien, Dodo Marmarosa, Earl Washington, Edwin Wilcox, Garland Finney, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Sunnyland Slim, Willard McDaniel (piano); Chico Hamilton, Charlie Gordon, Red Saunders Band, Leonard "Tight" Hardiman, Alfred Wallace, Jimmy Crawford (drums).

Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's not the first hip-hop archaeological dig. But this mix of proto-rap testifying, trash-talking and gibberish from the Twenties to the Sixties may be the most far-ranging one yet." Spin (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his scholarly comp proves its relevance with unwavering and often hilarious topical familiarity."

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