Shake Your Wicked Knees: Rent Parties and Good Times

Synopsis of Shake Your Wicked Knees: Rent Parties and Good Times

«Shake Your Wicked Knees: Rent Parties and Good Times» is a various artists compilation, released in 1998 by Yazoo Record Company, on CD.

A collection of piano blues, boogie woogie and ragtime with recordings from 1928 to 1943. It recreates the atmosphere of rent parties, gatherings where attendees contributed to the rent, and of dance halls, through rag piano pieces, blues and stomps by various musicians of the era, produced by Francis Wilford-Smith.

Compilation released by Yazoo with catalogue number 2035 and a single CD; the recordings date from 1928 to 1943 and mix blues, jazz and ragtime styles.

For fans of classic blues, boogie woogie and ragtime from the early decades of the 20th century.