Recorded in October 1928 on the same record date as "The Mooche," "Hot and Bothered" has a faster pace and an effervescent vocalise by Baby Cox with Lonnie Johnson playing with an equally fast yet clean guitar solo. Johnson, on these records, may have been recorded too close but this closeness sounds so right that it’s never a bother. Barney Bigard plays a lightning fast performance on his lower register clarinet.
Posted on 06/16/2008
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