That old time bar room feeling…
I like this record, it sounds as if it was recorded in the hold of a really big supertanker! Presumably the pianola wasn't feeling very well that day but they went ahead and used it after all. Nice steady 4/4 rhythm, not very much in the way of expression but probably how most of its hearers heard it on the nickelodeon anyway. There are mistakes in the titling: The Swipsy Back Walk is new to me but seems to be The Swipesy CAKE Walk on listening to the sample, and The Rag Time Dancer (whoever he/she might be) has annexed the laurels of The Rag Time Dance! Poor Mr Joplin did name his pieces with care, so it's polite to get them right… I see he isn't currently 'on tour'; no great mystery there as he died in 1917.
