The Riotous, Raucous, Red-Hot 20's!
Joe "Fingers" Carr
- Artist
- Joe "Fingers" Carr
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Catalog number
- WB 1423
- Format
- LP · Album · Mono
- Country
- New Zealand
- Released
- 1962
- Genre
- Jazz
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Where it came from
Released in 1962 by Warner Bros. Records, The Riotous, Raucous, Red-Hot 20's! was a product of the mid-century nostalgia craze for the Roaring Twenties. At the time, popular culture frequently revisited the ragtime and honky-tonk sound, and this album served as a platform for Joe "Fingers" Carr, the stage name of Lou Busch, to showcase his signature upbeat piano style. The record was designed to appeal to listeners seeking lighthearted, energetic instrumental music that evoked the atmosphere of a speakeasy or a classic piano bar.
Lou Busch, a prolific producer and arranger for Capitol and later Warner Bros., developed the Joe "Fingers" Carr persona to emulate the virtuosic, rhythmic "rinky-tink" piano playing of the ragtime era. The artwork and marketing for WB 1423 leaned heavily into the stylistic tropes of the 1920s, utilizing bold, exuberant typography and imagery meant to signal a fun, festive listening experience. While the album was received as a competent and spirited collection of standards, it occupies a niche space in the wider catalog of early-sixties easy-listening and ragtime revival records.
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