The
Mary Parry
Trio
From the 1960 album 'A Date with The Everly Brothers' and later, a hit for Roy Orbison.
Written by Duke Ellington.
Originally written and recordend by Mississippi John Hurt.
Made famous by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald.
We've given this funky soul number by The Holmes Brothers the jazz/blues treatment.
Blues in the New Orleans style written and recorded by Jon Cleary.
Bessie Smith's jazz/blues standard from 1925 with Mary in fine voice.
For this lovely song, recorded by Alison Krauss and James Taylor (and many others), Mary and Tony sing and Joe is playing lap steel.
The classic folk song with Mary singing, Tony Parry on rhythm guitar and Joe on dobro.
A Randy Newman song with Tony and Mary singing harmony.
An aria from the opera 'Porgy and Bess', 'Summertime' is a lullaby but has now become a jazz classic.
Bessie Smith made this Jimmy Cox song from 1923 into an all time favourite. It has been covered many times since.
Written by Donagh Long, this song was popularised by Dolores Keane.
Written by Don Gibson it was first recorded by Faron Young but made famous (posthumously) by Patsy Cline who recorded it in 1963 shortly before her fatal plane crash.
Surely, one of the most classic American songs ever written, by Hank Williams in 1949.
Originally recorded my American trio "Red Molly".
Written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson and was an international hit in 1963.
Written 1945, 'Autumn Leaves' is a popular song based on a French song 'Les Feuilles mortes' ('The Dead Leaves') composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945. More than a thousand commercial recordings are known to have been released by mainstream and jazz musicians.
"Beale Street Blues" is a 1917 song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. Named after Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.
This song was originally from the end of the nineteenth century and was sung around the 1890s in New Orleans. A pallet is a bed made on the floor without any bedframe.
'Stormy Weather' is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it later that year.
Written and recorded by Lucinda Williams in 1992.
Written and recorded by Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold in 1955. The best selling version was by Ray Charles in 1962.