Volume 195: Delta Dixieland

This is truly an interesting find in my dad’s collection. We know by now my dad’s love for the Dixieland style of music. So it’s not surprising I found this record in the stacks.

But what was surprising is that this recording was made by seven musicians that had never played together before. You most certainly can’t tell. And they’re not exactly household names. 

So, get ready to hear what it must have sounded like rollin’ down the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th century in Volume 195: Delta Dixieland.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Delta Kings – Down The River With The Delta Kings
Label: Down South Records – DS 201
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Dixieland

We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.

Ole Man River
written by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II

Beautiful Ohio
written by Ballard MacDonald, Robert King
First released in 1919

'Way Down Upon The Swanee River
Old Folks at Home written by Stephen Foster

Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee
written by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Lewis F. Muir 

Up That Lazy River
by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin

Down By The Riverside (I Ain't Goin' to Study War No More)
A traditional song first recorded in 1920

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.