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The Heroes Of Parlor Town - Volume 1 by Brent Watkins
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fave it Traditional | Ragtime
16 tracks | 51 minutes
Released Mar 2005
on RiverMedia.tv
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:26 Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) FREE 02:26 Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 02:26 Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:00 Swipesy Cakewalk (Joplin/Marshall) BUY MP3 03:00 Swipesy Cakewalk (Joplin/Marshall) "GIFT MP3" 03:00 Swipesy Cakewalk (Joplin/Marshall)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 Sun Flower Slow Drag (Joplin/Hayden) BUY MP3 03:14 Sun Flower Slow Drag (Joplin/Hayden) "GIFT MP3" 03:14 Sun Flower Slow Drag (Joplin/Hayden)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 Peacherine Rag (Joplin) BUY MP3 03:22 Peacherine Rag (Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 03:22 Peacherine Rag (Joplin)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:19 The Cascades (Joplin) BUY MP3 03:19 The Cascades (Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 03:19 The Cascades (Joplin)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:18 Hilarity (Scott) BUY MP3 02:18 Hilarity (Scott) "GIFT MP3" 02:18 Hilarity (Scott)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:11 Eatin' Chocolates (Henry) BUY MP3 03:11 Eatin' Chocolates (Henry) "GIFT MP3" 03:11 Eatin' Chocolates (Henry)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 Carbarlick Acid Rag (Wiley) BUY MP3 02:09 Carbarlick Acid Rag (Wiley) "GIFT MP3" 02:09 Carbarlick Acid Rag (Wiley)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:40 Magnetic Rag (Joplin) BUY MP3 04:40 Magnetic Rag (Joplin) "GIFT MP3" 04:40 Magnetic Rag (Joplin)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:26 Ragtime Nightingale (Lamb) BUY MP3 04:26 Ragtime Nightingale (Lamb) "GIFT MP3" 04:26 Ragtime Nightingale (Lamb)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Cataract Rag (Hampton) BUY MP3 03:48 Cataract Rag (Hampton) "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Cataract Rag (Hampton)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:57 Bantam Step (Jentes) BUY MP3 02:57 Bantam Step (Jentes) "GIFT MP3" 02:57 Bantam Step (Jentes)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:26 The Mule Walk (Johnson) BUY MP3 02:26 The Mule Walk (Johnson) "GIFT MP3" 02:26 The Mule Walk (Johnson)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:48 Poor Katie Redd (Blake) BUY MP3 03:48 Poor Katie Redd (Blake) "GIFT MP3" 03:48 Poor Katie Redd (Blake)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:07 The Charleston Rag (Blake) BUY MP3 03:07 The Charleston Rag (Blake) "GIFT MP3" 03:07 The Charleston Rag (Blake)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:53 Mamanita (Morton) BUY MP3 02:53 Mamanita (Morton) "GIFT MP3" 02:53 Mamanita (Morton)
The Parlor. America's "entertainment center" from 1880 to 1920. Before TV, before radio - when a piano and sheet music opened the world to new sounds and new composers. Brent Watkins brings a great sampling of the ragtime and early jazz era.
Bio / Background
"The CD...lives up to the promise of the website samples. Watkins plays with a great sense of the ragtime and stride styles, as we understand them. He tends to play his rags on the lively side, with a light, bouncy bass. He makes his rags happy, and they rollick with glee; his rendition of James Scott's "Hilarity Rag" expresses the title with exuberance. His stride pieces straddle the edges of rag, blues and jazz, merging the elements that make that style so exciting. He is not a purist as far as the notation is concered, but his departures from the score are apt and delight with surprise."
- Ed Berlin, author of "King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era" as reviewed in the June, 2005 issue of The Mississippi Rag.
Brent Watkins studied piano beginning at the age of 8. Trained in the classics, as a young teenager, Brent fell in love with ragtime piano in the early 70's, when music from the motion picture "The Sting" was played on a local radio station.
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the rag state of artticama wrote on September 09, 2008
Notable and very rag sound!