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Byron Asher's Skrontch Music

Lord, when you send the rain

By Byron Asher

Label: Sinking City Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Problem With Mississippi; New Louisiana Hoodoo Blues; The Break; Re: Backwater Blues; Duet; Threads; Ma Rainey's Barrelhouse Blues; Papa likes his outside women, Mama likes her outside men.

Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, when you send the rain

by Gareth Thompson
June 3, 2024

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive one in American history. Seven states were affected and the political fallout saw Herbert Hoover reach the White House by 1929. The saxophonist Byron Asher believes another political action was the development of New Orleans jazz, early in the twentieth century, in direct resistance to the ...