Papa Lemon: New Orleans Ukulele Maestro and Tent Show Troubadour: The 1959-61 Oster and Allen Recordings

Lemon “Papa Lemon” Nash was an iterant musician who traveled for many years with tent shows throughout the South. When not traveling with a circus or medicine show, Nash made his home in New Orleans busking in the Vieux Carré. On three occasions between 1959 and 1961, Tulane University Hogan Jazz Archive curator Dick Allen interviewed Nash about his life and music. Stories and songs from those interviews coupled with music recorded by Dr. Harry Oster form the basis of this recording. Outside of the Hogan Jazz Archive, it remains the only available recording of “Papa Lemon.”

Track Listing

101	Bourbon Street Parade	Lemon Nash	02:10
102	Papa Lemon's Blues	Lemon Nash	02:27
103	Serenading with Frank Wagner	Lemon Nash	01:08
104	Grave Digger's Blues	Lemon Nash	03:07
105	Trouble with the Man	Lemon Nash	01:22
106	What Was a Medicine Show Like?	Lemon Nash	00:40
107	Bowleg Rooster, Duckleg Hen / Sweet Georgia Brown	Lemon Nash	02:00
108	$25 a Night	Lemon Nash	01:57
109	Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out	Lemon Nash	02:19
110	Anybody Seen My Kitty?	Lemon Nash	00:59
111	Please Give Me Black and Brown	Lemon Nash	02:22
112	Barrelhouse	Lemon Nash	00:57
113	Let the Good Times Roll	Lemon Nash	01:45
114	What a Friend We Have in Jesus	Lemon Nash	02:17
115	Way in the Hee Hi Hoo	Lemon Nash	02:24
116	We Played Anywhere	Lemon Nash	01:10
117	I'm Blue Every Monday	Lemon Nash	02:42
118	Stagolee	Lemon Nash	02:42
119	The Battlefield	Lemon Nash	01:04
120	Rabbit Brown	Lemon Nash	01:00
121	If You Could Fight Like You Can Love	Lemon Nash	01:38
122	Those Drafting Blues	Lemon Nash	02:18
123	Spano's and Fox	Lemon Nash	02:27
124	Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen	Lemon Nash	02:09
125	Big Rock Candy Mountain	Lemon Nash	02:48
126	The Jiggler Vein and the Raincoat	Lemon Nash	01:55
127	Brownskin, Come and Go With Me	Lemon Nash	02:17