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Piano Blues, Vol.3 is a fascinating bundle of refreshingly honest blues, barrelhouse, and boogie-woogie recordings both rare and legendary.Tracks 10-18 feature vocalist George Hannah and were recorded in his hometown of St. Louis MO, Richmond, IN, and Grafton, WI in 1929 and 1930. "Hurry Home Blues" and "Setting Sun Blues" feature Lonnie Johnson on the violin and pianist John Erby. "Gutter Man Blues," "The Snitches Blues," and "Wobblin' in the Mud" find Hannah backed by a trio which possibly included pianist Georgia Tom Dorsey. The plot thickens considerably beginning with "Molasses Sopper Blues," as robust 25-year-old Meade "Lux" Lewis enlivens "The Boy in the Boat" (a traditional air devoted to the clitoris); "The Alley Rat Blues," and "The "Freakish Man Blues," now considered to have been Hannah's self-portrait as a gay man.