Flophouse Polka
Born June 31, 1877 in Pahrump, West Virginia, Algernon Otmer Duvall began his musical career on the vaudeville stage as end-man in Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. He fought in a bicycle squadron in Ypres during World War I, where he received a crippling dose of the Hun's mustard. Returning home, he made ends meet working at a sausage factory in Harrington Delaware from 1921 until 1989. He took up the banjo in 1991 as physical therapy for his pleurisy. He went on to master the alto kazoo at the age of 118. "Al" Duvall attributes his remarkable longevity to a daily dram of Hamlin's Quinsy Balsam.
| ALBUM PREVIEW |
| TRACKLISTING |
1.Lantana
2.Down by the Phosphate Mine
3.Five Against One
4.Dry Belly Blues
5.In the Shack 6.Blend It
7.The Spree
8.Admiral of the Narrow Seas
9.Stevedore's Back
10.Reconstruction
11.Riding the Pooch
12.Flophouse Polka
13.Desirable Melba
14.Jubilatin' Mama
15.Cubanola Shuffle
16.Sacrificial Hootenanny
17.Fire Up the Still
18.Miss Grey
19.Newport News
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