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Cornstars: Rube Music in Swing Time

(Dick C. Land Records)

Novelty Jazz teemed with cornball characters. Remember to heroically huff nitrous oxide, prior to scrambling into position atop this tilted sideshow ride. Melodious madcapism romps. Swarming are ocarinas, clarinets, washboards (festooned with bells and differently-pitched bulb horns), slide trombones, and trumpets - abetted in seemingly slapdash lunacy by pianos, doghouses, trap drum kits, and all manner of frivolous gadgets pressed into sound effect service. Of course, only supremely talented players could carry on so wackily whilst musicalizing with airtight preciseness. Spot-on instrumentalism and comically exaggerated gesticulations scoot on mismatched wheels toward common knee-slapping cause. Corn wasn't just a rib-feathering genre, it was also no place for gloomy Gusses. Scratchy surface noise attests to these tracks' dust-blanketed vinyl origins. 

Recommended: "Some of these Days," "Colonel Corn," "Tiger Rag," "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy," "Wabash Blues," "Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now," "At the Moving Picture Ball" (Freddy Fisher and His Scnickelfritz Band), "Write to Them Korn Kobblers," "The Barnyard Band," "When the Snow Begins to Fall Next Summer," "Chopsticks," "Twenty-Five Chickens, Thirty-Five Cows," "Fuzzy Wuzzy" (Stan Fritts and the Korn Kobblers), "Toy Town Band," "Pop Corn Man" (The Kidoodlers), "Listen to the Mocking Bird," "Turkey in the Straw" (Darrell Fisher and His Log Jammers), "Guitar Rag" (The Crazy Tooters), "Brazen Little Raisin" (Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers)

Videos: "Colonel Corn"   "Tiger Rag"   "Write to them Korn Kobblers"   "Twenty-Five Chickens, Thirty-Five Cows"   

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