Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Rev. W. A. White
Rev. W. A. White
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
James Blythe
James Blythe
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Sodarisa Miller
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Sunset Four Quartette & Grace Outlaw
Sunset Four Quartette & Grace Outlaw
Ray Logan
Ray Logan
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Ethel Waters
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Sunset Four Quartette
Sunset Four Quartette
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Madame C. Mae Frierson Moore &
Madame C. Mae Frierson Moore &
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
M. R. Ward
M. R. Ward
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Trixie Smith
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Blythe’s Sinful Five
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Rev. W. A. White
Rev. W. A. White
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Viola Bartlette
Ma Rainey
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Austin And His Musical Ambassadors
The Hotentots
Priscilla Stewart
Priscilla Stewart
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Ma Rainey
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blythe’s Washboard Band
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
James Blythe
James Blythe
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Cora Hopson
Cora Hopson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Jimmie Blythe And His Ragmuffins & Trixie Smith
Jimmie Blythe And His Ragmuffins
Klien Tindull Paramount Serenaders
Klien Tindull Paramount Serenaders &
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Junie Cobb’s Home Town Band
Junie Cobb’s Home Town Band
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Dixon’s Jazz Duo
Dixon’s Jazz Duo
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Blake
Blind Blake
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson & Blind Blake
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson & Blind Blake
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Biddleville Quintette
Biddleville Quintette
Ardell “Shelly” Bragg
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals & Papa Charlie Jackson
Church folks, let grace shine in your walk
But first know you're right before you talk
Because the devil has been granted a [?] excuse
And for moonshine's sake, they have turned him a-loose
In this town
Women are not keen with the styles they wear
Their skirts are too short and their arms are so bare
And during next season, they [?]
They'll discard their skirt and wear the waist so low
In this town
The absence of booze, it makes crimе no less
[?] drink [blues?] and all kinds of mess
Whilе churchgoing officials drink beer and wine
The preacher himself, brother, [?] 'shine
In this town
Churchgoing women, to enchant her smile
Have bobbed their hair in the actress style
Manicuring their lips in the North and South
To look just like a perch's mouth
In this town
Religious sheep like shepherd flock
Got a church and a garage in nearly every block
They stick to their minister like feathers to tar
And the more churches they build, the worse they are
In this town
Always wrong is the way of a dunce
He'd rather be a fool than a wise man once
Swarming 'round church like bees on Sunday
And down the dale they go on Monday
In this town
Church members and sinners are all one feather
Like hogs in a ditch, they wallow together
In the swindle they creep, the graft they dart
And if judged by worth, you can't tell 'em apart
In this town
Many thousands of persons having no defense
Are sorry and dying for their lack of sense
Yet no one has ventured to rescue the creatures
Who are led to hell by hypocrite preachers
In this town
Bootlegging people have very good points
On running lewd houses and whiskey joints
With only one iron and a washing tub
Such dives are called a pressing club
In this town
Now in the moonshine sport, all are playing the same
And there are two big leaders got a hand in the game
Church plays the ace, preacher, the deuce
And they both together turn the devil a-loose
In this town
Vanity In This Town was written by M. R. Ward.