“The Bears Are Back ”

The Big Bear Stompers

Personnel:
Ben Cummings trumpet
Tony Davis trumpet
Mike Wills clarinet, soprano sax
Perry Lock piano
Dave Moorwood banjo, vocal on 4, 11
Geoff Hull sousaphone
Tony Isaacs washboard
Judy Eames vocal on 4, 5, 8, 9, 11

with special guest:
Jim Maihack trombone

1 Big Bear Stomp Watters 5m 44s
2 Bay City Murphy 5m 16s
3 Coal Cart Blues Armstrong/Armstrong 5m 25s
4 Aggravatin' Papa Britt/Robinson/Turk 5m 45s
5 Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn Hayes/Washington/Mills 5m 12s
6 Black Bottom Stomp Morton 4m 20s
7 Jazzin' Babies Blues Jones 7m 18s
8 Melancholy Blues Bloom/Melrose 8m 22s
9 Milenburg Joys Rappolo/Mares/Morton 5m 13s
10 Thick Lip Stomp Moten 4m 28s
11 You Ain't The One Johnson/Porter 4m 41s
12 Friendless Blues Handy/Mercedes 1m 44s
Total running time 63m 57s

Recorded by Peter Kings at Lains Barn, Wantage, Oxfordshire on:
March 17th, 2005

Produced by P.E.K. Sound (Digital Location Recording), Congerstone, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. CV13 6LZ ENGLAND.  Telephone/Fax +44 (0)1827 880091
Photographs by Brian Robinson