Sanitary Cafe -- Jim Scancarelli & Tommy Malboeuf

Old Oblivion 00-5

Side one:
sound effects: Cash Register
Putting $0.25 in the Juke Box
High Country A 3:34
Westfalia Waltz G 3:09
Bramble and the Rose C 3:25
Tallahassee A 3:06
Star of the County Down Am 3:58
Southwind/Midnight on the Water D 2:50
Rough and Rocky D 3:59
Stoney Creek A 2:10
Cafe Sound EFFX   :17
Daydreams Am 2:01 original by D. Wright & J. Scancarelli
 
 
 
Side two:
El Manisero G 2:26 tune about a street vendor selliing roasted peanuts South of the Border! It's an old tune sung throughout Latin America.
Where the Roses Never Fade C 3:42
Molly Darling C 1:44
Brown County E 3:17
Pass Me Not A 3:03
You Never Mentioned Him to Me C 2:28
Ouk Pik Waltz Am 2:54
Dixie Hoedown G 2:41
French Fry Applause   :16
Work Time D 2:31 Original Tommy Malboeuf
Sweet Hour of Prayer D 2:25
Cafe Sound EFFX   :07

Liner notes:

A few Sanitary Cafes still exist down South and all are equipped with a juke box. I went to a beanery in the mountains and discovered a juke box filled with Flatt and Scruggs and Monroe platters. Country and Rock were in the minority!

Fiddle great, Kenny Baker, spent lots of nickels and wore out a juke record of "Roanoke", listening to the fiddling! And so it was with "Red" Tommy Malboeuf and me, listening to Bluegrass on just such a machine in a Sanitary Cafe.

I've known "Red" Tommy since 1963. He plays great fiddle! Always has, still does! On these selections he does note for note harmony to my lead. Recently I learned I'm distantly related to him as my cousin's wife is related to Tommy's mother! So what, you say?--You may be right!

-Jim Scancarelli

Toons Of the Fiddle and Car

Dedicated to the three beautiful waitresses at the Sanitary Cafe, the Fabulous Alley Sisters, Imogene, Valvolene and Gasolene; who sing out loud, "What is all this for?", if not for cleverness!!

The male fiddler ego requires that one be cleverer in the face of such state -of-the-art cleverness as what goes on here, but "is the bow mightier than the pen?"...or the sword mightier than the bow?", they ask sharply!

Be that as it may...I first met Jim in 1970 at Wolf Trap Farm and, after much positive communication between banjo and fiddle, was honored to appear in his syndicated newspaper show "Gasoline Alley" where I was allowed to perform in a dimension that I never experienced before and got feedback on a level I was totally unprepared for.

Should you be picking up this recording for the first time, we request you attach it to your person by whatever means are immediately available and re-imburse its proprietor with whatever money, produce or live stock he would require to satisfy such a transaction...the music on this recording is so great we don't know enough cuss words to describe it.

-John Hartford


Great fiddlin' guys and great singing, Pat!
This album is full of swinging bluegrass music that triggers memories of my music roots and for that I thank you, Jim.

Your friend,

Doug Kershaw
The Louisiana Man

Credits:
Jim Scancarelli - Lead Fiddle
Tommy Malboeuf - Harmony Fiddle
Don Wright - Banjo
Steve Kilby - Guitar, Mandolin, Mandola and High Strung Guitar
Bill Williams - Bass
Pat Cocklin - Vocals
Tony Anaya - Guitars, Guiro, Claves and Yell on "El Mansiero"
Angelica Anaya - Cabasa on "Manisero"

Thanks are due to all the fine pickers on this session and to the following ones who helped with the preliminaries and never seem to get mentioned...Jim Greene, Dennis White, Adael Perkins, Jill Jones, Jill Helms, Gladys Torres, C.E. Ward and Chuck Dunlop!

Sound effects recorded at the Philadelphia Deli, Charlotte, NC.

Recorded and mixed at Audioworks, Charlotte, NC, by Mike Robinson on December 7, 1991.