Skinny Mama / On The Road Again

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1956

Label: Abco Records

Recorded Chicago, IL 31 January 1953 first issued Floyd Jones And His Trio

Info from: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/abco.html and Dr. Robert Stallworth
Before the Freddie Hall single came out (see Ab5), Joe Brown had a slightly different idea for Abco G-103. He made a trial run at reissuing a JOB recording from 1953. "On the Road Again" (title truncated on the reissue) and "Skinny Mama" were blues classics by Floyd Jones, but the rationale was, well, unclear for putting them out again on Abco in 1956. Brown seems to have come to the same conclusion, as the Floyd Jones variant of G-103 is extremely rare today. The label design is the same as on other Abcos, but on the 45 labels, the background color is pale yellow (like a washed out JOB label from 1953), not pale greenish blue. (If the Floyd Jones G-103 was like every other Abco, it was also released on 78—but we have not seen a copy in that format.)