Ragtime Piano Roll Volume 1 and 2 (Riverside RLP-1006/RLP-1025 - 1953)

During the surge of honky-tonk piano recordings in the early 1950s, a few entries stood out as they were only peripheral or adjacent to the honky-tonk. This one evokes the ragtime as the core of those albums, but is clearly aligned with the re-emergence of ragtime through the 1950 book They All Played Ragtime by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis. While not the best of fidelity, the Ragtime Piano Roll series was the first LP series of its kind including several basic and a few very fine piano roll renditions of both common and rare rags. The usual copious liner notes and visual commentary are included, but identification of all but two of the roll matrices proved to be a challenge, so, titles only.

00:00 Grace and Beauty
02:36 Ragtime Oriole
05:01 Saint Louis Rag
07:54 American Beauty Rag
10:44 Scott Joplin's New Rag
13:31 Original Rags
16:30 Fig Leaf Rag
20:13 The Entertainer
23:17 Maple Leaf Rag
25:46 Evergreen Rag
28:14 The Grizzly Bear Rag
30:39 The Cascades
32:50 States Rag Medley #8
32:56 1-Horsehoe Rag
33:27 2-Queen Rag
33:43 3-Sunflower Rag
34:02 4-Uncle Tom's Cabin Rag
34:51 5-Hot Scotch Rag
35:10 6-Frosty
35:25 7-Fashion Rag
35:39 8-That Tuneful Rag
35:54 9-Tattered Melody Rag
36:12 10-Sponge
36:44 Saint Louis Tickle
39:38 Jungle Time
42:33 'Possum and 'Taters