There's good news and bad news. The bad news is that we decided to perpetuate the perpetration of this musical crime.*** 
 

    
       1. Bye Bye Blues Real Audio clip
       2. Coney Island washboard
       3. Somebody stole my gal  Real Audio clip
       4. St. James Infirmary Real Audio (short)
       5. Cottonfields Real Audio (short)
       6. Shine
       7. Bill Bailey
       8. Just a closer Walk Real Audio (short)
       9. My blue heaven Real Audio (Short)
       10.Tiger rag Real Audio (short)
       11. World is waiting for the sunrise Real Audio (short)
       12. When you're smiling
       13. I've found a new baby (Real Audio (Short)
       14. Do Lord
       15. I can't give you anything but love Real Audio Clip
       16. Jambalaya
       17. When the Saints go marching in Real Audio Clip

Personnel:

The madcap foursome features the famous, uncanny "mouth trumpet" of
Doug "Mr. Lips" Everton, who continually amazes even professional trumpet players with the accuracy of his sound--how does he do it!!??--and worse yet, how well he plays with other horns. His bag of tricks includes a wealth of sound effects and instrument imitations, 6-string banjo, ear-catching (-splitting?) vocal imitations of "Satchmo", Johnny Cash, the Inkspots, and "The King"! In other venues, he plays guitar, bass guitar and drums, and is leader of the Wayward Street Players, which has recently issued a CD. Doug has just moved to Morgen City, LA, following the fleet, so to speak.

With his nuclear clarinet and sporano sax, Jack "Mr. Saxstick" Bryce, can peel paint, soothe the savage beast or spin your head, as his fingers fly over the keys at tempo-di-breako-da-knuckles. He also swings these axes with the Sheiks of Dixie, fills the air with the tenor sax sounds of Coleman Hawkins and King Curtis in the Sultans of Swing , and pumps the baritone sax in the Red Herring Motel Orch

The band's pounding, pulsing, supremely irritating rhythm is provided by bandleader
Dave "Mr. Scrubboard" Littlefield, who makes mirthful mayhem with a variety of sound effects--duck calls, bicycle horns, the wretched rachet and the infamous bucket--that make Spike Jones spin in his urn. As he puts it, "I get to do allsorts of stuff my mommy wouldn't let me, and I get paid for it!!" Dave sometimes takes a break from the thimbles-that-make-the-noise and beats the living daylights out of a banjo, which he plays in his Sheiks of Dixie. At other times he plays piano and guitar with his bands the  Sultans of Swing and Red Herring Motel Orch

The voice of sanity, as well as gen-u-wine bass lines, is provided by
Jay "Mr. Brasstubes" Miles on tuba, who sits there calmly punctuating the madness and wondering why he didn't follow his mother's advice to take up basket weaving. As Jay puts it, "Anything for a buck". Jay also played tuba with the Sheiks of Dixie. Jay plays a mean bass, so mean in fact that he's now playing all over the country with Sam Butera, Louis Prima's sax man who is perpetuating the Prima  legacy.

Littlefield plays a "short scale" plectrum banjo made for him by Dale Small of Alba MO, who created it to provide a great banjo sound in all registers for guitar tuning, with plenty of punch to drive the largest band.

Caravan Records, RASM 6001
Recorded dead at the Washington Hilton, Feb. 1, 1997.
Mastered by Jim Kashishian, Kash Productions S.A., Madrid, Spain, during a white lightnin'-induced lost weekend.

CD $17.00. Cassette $11.00 including mailing. Send check or money order, made out to:
American Music Caravan, to:
David W. Littlefield, 6809 5th Street NW, Washington DC  20012-1905

***I lied, there ain't no good news.
 

Revised: 1/14/2001