Barrelhouse McFarland Buck - Alton Blues Format:CD Springs for four percussionists tears

Springs for four percussionists tears the roof off

we produced and recorded the the songs at home on the Chinook Ranch

a fitting closing to this musically diverse and compelling release

to his alliance with Alan Freed

Barrelhouse McFarland Buck - Alton Blues Format:CD Springs for four percussionists tearsIn February 1957, Bob Koester wrote in his newsletter, the Jazz Report, that recent rediscoveries of legendary artists Big Joe Williams and Speckled Red gave information on other forgotten musicians from the 1920s. Koester was told that Paramount and Decca recording artist Barrelhouse Buck McFarland was still around St Louis and he passed that info along to Charlie O'Brien, a fellow member of the St Louis Jazz Club and a St Louis policeman. Buck, the