Leroy Dallas

Leroy Dallas

Leroy Dallas

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Top Songs

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She Caught the M & O
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I'm Down Now but I Won't Be Down Always
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Jump Little Children Jump
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Baby Please Don't Go Back to New Orleans
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Your Sweet Man's Blues

Albums

  • Good Morning Blues

    May 2015 • 8 songs

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Leroy Dallas

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b. 12 December 1920, Mobile, Alabama, USA. Dallas travelled the south in the 30s and 40s, teaming up for some time with Frank Edwards, and sang in the Chicago streets for a while before settling in New York from 1943. His 1949 recordings for Sittin' In With are in a small group format with Brownie McGhee (with whom Dallas had played guitar and washboard in the 30s) and Big Chief Ellis; they bear little sign of urbanization (indeed his springy guitar rhythms positively countrify ‘Jump Little Children, Jump', usually a preserve of blues shouters). By 1962, he had ceased to play ...
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