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From the 1973 album, "After the Ball".


Much thanks to the MItch Wittenberg, Fahey aficionado extraordinaire, for all his help with this tune.

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The tune is an adaptation of "Smoketown Strut" by blues guitar player Sylvester Weaver. However, I also found this 1928 version of "Bucktown Stomp" by Johnny Dodds, a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzoCoN4d4fA

There was no attribution or mention of the other versions by either of these two.
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Fahey's album (and "Of Rivers and Religion before it) featured Dixieland-style jazz dance band numbers that were unlike anything else Fahey had done before. Following the fulfillment of the two-album contract and poor sales, Fahey was released from Reprise and went back to recording for his own Takoma label. I don't know, I happen to think that these are two of his best album. Just my opinion

Speaking of both albums in a 1998 interview, Fahey said, "I don't understand why they got bad reviews. It's like every time I wanted to do something other than play guitar I got castigated." I'd say that these albums had an awful lot of amazing guitar works.
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I thought the information on Dodds was interesting, so I'll include a little bit of it here.......

Dodds was best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.

Born in Waveland, Mississippi, United States, he moved to New Orleans in his youth, and studied clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. He played with the bands of Frankie Duson, Kid Ory, and Joe "King" Oliver. Dodds went to Chicago and played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, with which he first recorded in 1923. Dodds also worked frequently with his good friend Natty Dominique during this period, a professional relationship that would last a lifetime. After the breakup of Oliver's band in 1924, Dodds replaced Alcide Nunez as the house clarinetist and bandleader of Kelly's Stables. He recorded with numerous small groups in Chicago, most notably Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 and Hot 7, and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers.

Noted for his professionalism and virtuosity as a musician, and his heartfelt, heavily blues-laden style, Dodds was an important influence on later clarinetists, notably Benny Goodman.

Dodds did not record for most of the 1930s, affected by ill health. He died of a heart attack in Chicago, in August 1940.

In 1987, Dodds was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.