[Dixielandjazz] sugar foot stomp

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

according to Little Brother Montgomery, the tune also known as Dippermouth Blues 
was actually based on a piano composition by an otherwise almost forgotten 
barrelhouse pianist called Bob Morton.
In Chicago in 1960 Brother recorded a brilliant performance of the number for 
Paul Oliver, which later appeared on an LP shared with Sunnyland Slim,  though a 
combination of Brother's Southern accent and association with a famous 
proprietory brand of tonic for dogs retitled the number as Bob Martin Blues. 


There's no other recording of the number on which Brother manages the prodigy of 
touch on that 1960 recording, though the same music appears as OLD LOUISIANA 
BLUES on a recording made by the late Francis Wilford Smith of Brother in 
England also in 1960.  The piano on that date was it seems ferried by cart from 
a pub to the farmhouse bought with the proceeds of Smith's Smilby cartoons in 
PLAYBOY. 

As i recall there's another Montgomery recording on which he actually plays this 
number while singing  the words of a different old blues which also has a 
distinctive tune of its own. 

The more slowly the composition is played, the more complex the rhythms 
generated. With some Bixian lyricism it would make a remarkable slow tango