When George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery sings "Mustard Greens," his rich, rugged voice shifts from a call-and-response conversation about eating cornbread and mustard greens to lyrics about growing up in the country. The impulse of the moment is what drives him. Samuel Charters, who recorded Daddy Hotcakes in 1961, continues to marvel at Hotcakes' ingenuity twenty years later: "I never have recorded anyone who was quite like him.... Using his imagination and a store of blues phrases to help him through occasional hesitations he simply made up the songs as he went along.... I never could be sure what was coming next." Hotcakes developed his style wandering across the South and taking on various performing jobs on the road. He settled in St. Louis in the 1940s, where he continued performing on the streets and entertaining people in St. Louis streetcars. This compilation explores Daddy Hotcakes' creativity and imagination, key ingredients for the St. Louis blues.

Tracklist:

Strange Woman Blues
The Deep Blue Sea
Well, I've Been Down To Memphis
Pull My Windowshade Low
Wine Blues
Mustard Greens
Corrina Corrina
Don't Sass My Grandmother
Hawaiian Dream Blues
I Ride My Horses Most Anywhere
I've Got A Woman Who's Very Nice To Me

UPC: 093070381421
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

Daddy Hotcakes - The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 1: Daddy Hotcakes (CD)