Bo Grumpus ragtime trio sampler feat. Marty Eggers, Pete Devine, and Craig Ventresco (1994-2001)

This is a sampling of the music of the late great San Francisco ragtime trio Bo Grumpus. This group came together around 1991, recorded its first album in 1994, and continued working with the lineup heard here through at least 2001.
Note: The group is not to be confused with the Boston-based late 1960s psychedelic folk-rock band of the same name that recorded for Atco Records.
Craig Ventresco played guitar and sang occasionally. Percussionist Pete Devine was basically a second soloist, slyly orchestrating the arrangements with a variety of percussion instruments--Pete was the ragtime Philly Joe Jones! (He now plays in HowellDevine, a great blues trio that has released 5 albums since 2012 on Arhoolie and other labels.) Marty Eggers played bass and held everything together beautifully. (Eggers also plays ragtime piano, and you can find videos of him doing so on UA-cam.)
0:00 - 1.) Popularity [B]
3:37 - 2.) Circus Medley: Oh, You Circus Day / Circus Day in Dixie [C]
7:47 - 3.) All By Myself / Gypsy Blues [B]
12:32 - 4.) I Love Me [vocal by Craig Ventresco] [A]
15:19 - 5.) St. Louis Rag [B]
18:03 - 6.) Medley: Buzzin' the Bee / Pray for the Lights to Go Out [D]
21:24 - 7.) Sensation [A]
24:55 - 8.) Lingering Love / Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee [C]
29:56 - 9.) Bo Grumpus Stomp [E]
34:20 - 10.) Peaceful Henry [B]
36:57 - 11.) Don't Take Me Home [vocal by Craig Ventresco] [C]
40:20 - 12.) Hornpipe Polka [B]
43:00 - 13.) Cielo Stellato [D]
46:20 - 14.) Oceana Roll [vocal by Craig Ventresco] [A]
49:03 - 15.) Bueno Festa [D]
52:33 - 16.) An Operatic 'Rag' [C]
56:09 - 17.) Cabaret Rag [D]
Albums:
A - 'Volume Three' (1994)
B - 'The Tale of a Bumble Bee' (1996)
C - 'The Graveyard Blues' (1998)
D - 'Blues & Rags' (2001)
E - 'Kinky and Sweet' (1998, Terry Waldo album feat. Bo Grumpus)
Craig Ventresco may be best known outside of ragtime guitar circles as a featured artist on the soundtrack to the 1995 documentary film 'Crumb'. The soundtrack features 45 minutes of Ventresco's solo ragtime guitar and is highly recommended, as is Ventresco's 2000 solo album 'The Past Is Yet to Come'.
See a young Craig and Marty playing on the street in San Francisco in the 1990s here:
• Bo Grumpus
Craig and Meredith Axelrod have many live stream performances archived here:
www.youtube.com/@meredithanth...
Unfortunately, Bo Grumpus' self-released albums are all out of print and only available through used CD vendors as copies become available. See the group's page on Discogs.com for details on their albums: www.discogs.com/artist/133517...
Note: no copyright infringement is intended, and I will gladly remove this video if needed. I am posting only because I think this music deserves to be more widely heard.