“His new CD, recorded on the job, reveals him to be
a fine entertainer who knows how to please a crowd
and hold their interest while exposing them to some
fine classic ragtime amidst the inevitable war-horses
and sentimental favorites ...” (The Mississippi Rag)
Black and White Rag (George Botsford) • Georgia Grind (Ford Dabney) • Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin) • You Made Me Love You (Monaco & McCarthy) • That’s A-Plenty (Pollack & Gilbert) • El Choclo (A.G. Villoldo) • Sunflower Slow Drag (Joplin & Hayden) • Marsovia (Henriette Blanke-Belcher) • St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) • Under the Double Eagle (J.F. Wagner) • I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (McHugh & Fields) / 12th Street Rag (Euday L. Bowman) • The Chrysanthemum (Scott Joplin) • Original Boogie Woogie (Pinetop Smith) • Tiger Rag (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) • Ragtime Nightingale (Joseph F. Lamb) • Shootin’ the Rapids (Hoyle Osborne) • The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
Recorded on 1909 Steinway Vertegrand
Diamond Belle Saloon, Durango, Colorado
Hoyle Osborne’s composition Enchantment: A New Mexican Serenade was awarded second place in the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation’s Ragtime Composition
Contest 2000. Osborne performed the new tune at the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri, on June 3, 2000. Read about it in the Durango Herald.
