Can't Get That
Stuff No More

He was born in 1904 in Smithville, Georgia, and was given what was definitely NOT a blues name: Hudson Woodbridge. Well, the world wouldn't know him by that handle -- it was as Tampa Red that he became one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of his day. His big break came in 1928 when he was hired to accompany blues legend Ma Rainey, and their subsequent recordings would popularize the silly, bawdy sound we lovingly know as "hokum music." Here Dave Peyton leads us one of our favorite Tampa Red hokum songs … genetically altered, of course, to incorporate a few West Virginia references.