Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette

Polk Miller - Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette

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Artist: Polk Miller
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Music Label: Tompkins Square
Soundtracks:

The Bonnie Blue Flag
The Laughing Song
What a Time
The Watermelon Party
Rise and Shine
The "Old Time" Religion
Jerusalem Mournin'
Oh What He's Done for Me
Watermillion Party
Bohunkus and Josephus
Oysters and Wine at 2 A.M.
Pussy Cat Rag
When de Corn Pone's Hot
No Hiding Place Down Here

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Music Review: Great old time music
Rating: 5 Stars

This is just an amazing album. I'm not sure where all to start. The first half of this album is cylinder recordings from about 1910 or so. Cylinder technology had advanced a lot from its beginnings in the late 1890s, but there wasn't a ton of material like this, old-time banjo and guitar music.

The material from the late 1920s is also great, there's more of an edge and jump to the songs, when they're recorded in the absence of the by now deceased Polk, and the Old South Quartette, which carried on without him - for at least two decades later!

Polk Miller grew up in a family that held slaves. He was a Civil War confederate veteran, adding a little more gravity to the opener song Bonnie Blue Flag. He toured the north and south with the quartette, but audiences weren't ready for an interracial group - and they let him know about it. He eventually disbanded it for this reason.

Polk must have been a complicated person, trying to represent and remind audiences of some of the old south, in a new, one would imagine, more sophisticated way. I doubt he was trying to be subversive, but I'm sure he was interpreted as being just that.

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