[Dixielandjazz] Scots in a Warmer Clime and Italian influences

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Rick Campbell wrote:
>
>As a descendent of Northern Mississippi Campbells near Ackerman  
>(Choctaw County), I can assure you that the inland parts of the Deep  
>South can be as miserably freezing as Scotland on occasion. That is  
>why I never understood "Tishomingo Blues" 

 
Rick continues by making reference to the words  -- sunny, warm...
but surely they represent the sense of humour 
and Tishomingo is a reference to the inhabitants sneezing all the time 
 
And no doubt the Choctaw Indians were so named for the horrible barking cough 
caught from the immigrants 
 
But this is no time for serious matters such as those --
on a lighter note, the mechanical recording of rural white performers did begin before quite a number had American rather than European musical accents.  A comparison could easily be set up between recordings of Southern Fiddlers and American-based fiddlers for the US market and fiddlers from Ireland or Scotland 
 
As for Shetland, the guitar-strumming support was it seemed revolutionised without being turned into jazz or anything Italian by an ingenious guitarist called Peerie Willie Johnson, who heard Eddie Lang on short wave radio. A posthumous CD collection of Peerie Willie's private recordings was almost all jazz. 
 
I suspect some questions of the Italian influence via ODJB have to do rather with the way the word was used, and when. In TREAT IT GENTLE Bechet seems to use the word Ragtime in contexts where Jazz would be the usual term.