Barrelhouse McFarland Buck - Alton Blues Format:CD we produced and recorded the

we produced and recorded the the songs at home on the Chinook Ranch

Of course no collection of this type would be complete without Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei-probably one of the most famous settings ever written

to his alliance with Alan Freed

and contemporary music

Barrelhouse McFarland Buck - Alton Blues Format:CD we produced and recorded theIn February 1957, Bob Koester wrote in his newsletter, the Jazz Report, that recent rediscoveries of legendary artists Big Joe Williams and Speckled Red gave information on other forgotten musicians from the 1920s. Koester was told that Paramount and Decca recording artist Barrelhouse Buck McFarland was still around St Louis and he passed that info along to Charlie O'Brien, a fellow member of the St Louis Jazz Club and a St Louis policeman. Buck, the