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John Harrelson - Whorehouse Valentines (1995) [Shrimper, SHR54, cassette]

From the J-card:

blues, boogie-woogie, stride, and barrelhouse

Recorded at The Claremont Graduate School, 7/10/94

Thanks to:

Dr. Nancy van Deusen
Dennis Callaci
D.J. Alverson
James & James Recorders
Nick's Cafe Trevi, Claremont
The Grove House at Pitzer College
Norm Rush

Engineered by D.J. Alverson
Mastered by Tim Householder at
DIGIDOC, Anaheim

Dedicated to Joyce Shannon and Gustavo Gil

copyright-1994 all rights reserved
unauthorized duplication should be
regarded as risky but demonstrating good taste

I'm not much of a piano player, and I am not
a pianist at all. In fact, a famous Jazz pianist once told
me that he did not know "what to make of my playing". That
hurt my feelings, but it did not stop me from continuing to
play, listen, and learn.

There is no sound like that of an acoustic
piano: the sound, the feeling, the "completeness" of the
instrument. I have spent thousands of hours, alone with a
piano, and a piano is a keen lover, both demanding and giving.

I recorded this set of tunes, 53 in all, in 
one afternoon. The Steinway 'B' and twenty-five years of
the players listed above, and that hunger to play, led to
this collection of moments.

Oh, yeah, the title refers to the way some
admirable New Orleans piano "professors" used to earn a good
living.

JOHN

Tracklist, as given:

Side ONE
WhoreHouse Valentine #2
Honeysuckle Rose
You Can't Do That
C.C. Rider
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Suicide
Brown Sugar

Side TWO
On the Sunnyside of the Street
House of the Rising Sun
Yardbird Suite
Cucamonga Woogie
Minin' Boy
Ain't Misbehavin'
Turpentine Stomp
WhoreHouse Valentine #6

CD ONLY
The Professor Is In
Makin' Whoopee
Since I Fell
Angel Eyes
Lover Man
Buddy Bolden

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