National Geographic's Moonlight Ragtime

You know how, in many stories, a first-person narrator will reminisce that their first views of nekkid women was when they read National Geographic?

Well, that kind of journalistic honesty is not part of this album.  It's a fine album, but everything here has been arranged and performed to perfection. This record is intended to embody your best, most cultured idea of ragtime, and not to evince any original, semi-gritty reality.

Still, even this mediated version of ragtime is lots o' fun!

01. The Easy Winners (4:27)

02. Weeping Willow (4:50)

03. Palm Leaf Rag (2:33)

04. Baltimore Todolo (3:23)

05. Bethena (4:03)

06. The Cascades (3:47)

07. Maple Leaf Rag (3:04)

08. Sunflower Slow Drag (3:57)

09. The Entertainer (2:36)

10. Sunshine Rag (4:21)

Also included are assembled scans of the liner notes and illos from this gatefold LP.

Moonlight Ragtime

See you on Thursday!