Old Lester's Speakeasy now available
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New recordings of - Dinah, Jellyroll, Ol' Satch, Easy Chair, It Had to Be You, Rockin' Chair and more!






A complete performance of 'I Ain't gonna give nobody none of this Jellyroll' from 9/1/6 underneath downtown Riverside.


A bit of Bi Mir Bist Dur Schoen from our Aug. 28 show.


Mr. This & That - Made by The Swinging Johnson Brothers and Hobo Jazz

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Below are older field recordings of ours. All recorded either in a living room or a garage. The fidelty & quality of these songs is not always great but we feel that if anyone would like to hear them, they should.
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My Blue Heaven - watch out for the roosters
It Had To Be You - For Darla Hootch...
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Gee, it's great
Bonnie - Why'd she go over the ocean?
Cryin' Time - Your gonna leave me. Mqs on banjo, Matt on guitar & coughs
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Right Myself A Letter
Delta Man - See you at the crossroads tonite
Deliah & Delilah - The Doctor came to late
Hobo Shuffle - All aboard Hobo & O Railroad
Shake Sugaree - Everything I got is done in pawn
Hobo Jazz - Our theme songs written by Dave Brown of Old Brown Shoe
Hobo's Lullaby - sans bamboo
Bottle of Wine - When you gonna let me get sober?
500 Miles - If you miss the train I'm on.....

Live on KUCR 88.3 Tina Bold's the Vinyl Hours 11-17-03
1. Parchman Farm Shuffle
2. Easy Chair
3. Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out
Matt - Voc/Gtr
Marquis - Voc/Gtr
Dave Brown - Upright Bass
Joe - Drums/Traps


Sunday Morning Coming Down - A Deviant Twang Sampler
Warning Sign Records
Featuring the music of The Devil Makes Three, Blackstrap, The Blue Lady Quintet, & the jumpin' jivin' stylin's of Hobo Jazz!






Some of the songs we do have a history far beyond anything we can sing in 3 minutes. Here I'd like to share a little information that I find hobo-riffic!

Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller wrote it, Louis Armstrong & Cab Calloway introduced it. You cant beat that!
Sweet Sue - An standard from jazz bands of old. We got it from an old Mills Brothers 78 I found. I love this song!
One Meatball - I first heard this from Dave Brown about 4 years ago & now it's one of our favorites. This one dates back to the amazing Josh White in 1941.
Easy Chair - One of the first songs we started doing over 3 years ago. It's a mixture of a Bob Dylan song & Leadbelly's 'Goodnite Irene'. We throw in an extra verse about ramblin' hobos at the end just for kicks.
Noboy Knows You When You're Down & Out - Matt pulled this one from an Eric Clapton record but it goes way back to Bessie Smith in the '20s.
Georgia - Ray Charles had the biggest hit with it, but the guy who wrote it deserves at least as much aclaim
Stagger Lee - A song dating back to a Civil War folk story about Billy Lyons & Stacker Lee. I got it from a Johnny Rivers album but you should check out the Lloyd Price version from the '60s.
Parchman Farm Blues - I got this song from the same Johnny Rivers album that I got Stagger Lee from. Originaly a Mose Allison tune about Mississippi State Penitentary. Temporary home for Son House & Bukka White among others.
My Blue Heaven - An old Walter Donaldson song & A great Steve Martin Movie.
Frankie & Johnny - Originally 'Frankie & Albert', Frankie later aquited of the shooting & ended up in a mental institution.
Shake Sugaree - Written by Elizabeth Cotton, A folk guitar legend of whom you should learn about.