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FREDERICK HODGES AND ADAM SWANSON Double Trouble: Hot Piano Duets Rivermont BSW-2211 Frederick Hodges and Adam Swanson are two of the most well-known and highly-regarded ragtime and "novelty" pianists in the world today. Hodges has served as pianist and singer with Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and the Peter Mintun Orchestra and currently enjoys a career as silent film accompanist in his native California and at film festivals around the world. Swanson is a recent two-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. For the past several years, Hodges and Swanson have teamed up at ragtime and early jazz festivals around the United States, and they have finally brought their fresh and exciting duets to disc in a thrilling program of ragtime, novelty, and popular song favorites. 45 minutes. CD Sold Out This album may still be purchased as an MP3 download from Amazon.com: Click on the buttons to hear full-quality audio samples of selected tracks. 1. Double Trouble Robin, Whiting, and Rainger 2. Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin 3. The Entertainer Scott Joplin 4. Swipesy Cake Walk Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall 5. Stay Out of the South Harold Dixon 6. Dill Pickles Charles L. Johnson 7. Take Me Out to the Ball Game Norworth and Von Tilzer 8. Nola Felix Arndt 9. Canadian Capers Chandler, White, and Cohen 10. Happy Feet Ager and Yellen 11. Pianoflage Roy Bargy 12. Kitten on the Keys Zez Confrey 13. Manhattan Madness Irving Berlin 14. Space Shuffle Robin Frost Credits: Recording engineer: Dix Bruce / Mastering: Jim Nunally / Liner notes: Frederick Hodges and Adam Swanson