Doublecrossing Dadrock
By ineff on February 22, 2026 11:59 pm
Weeklybeats = finishing tracks, so not enough time this week = wavsynth guitar solo
This week's (public domain) blues vocalists are Bessie Brown and George W. Williams, a husband-and-wife act from a vaudeville background. It's really worth listening to the source track "Double crossin' Daddy" (1923) to appreciate how―with split lines like, "(her) if you don't watch your behavior / (him) you'll have to use your rusty old razor"―those acts must have gone.
It's hard to dig up reliable information about Bessie and George, because a) there's very little biographical information covering them apart from their recordings, and b) for the better part of a century both have been confused with more famous namesakes, including "The Original" Bessie Brown (another "classic female blues" singer from the same era), big band musician/composer George "The Fox" Williams, and another (non-musical) George W. Williams (ground-breaking historian).
› freesound.org samples used
› Library of Congress samples used
› Selected M8 Instruments (matey)
Made and mixed on a Dirtywave M8 Tracker. All samples used are in the Public Domain/CC0.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)
