Hokum

The word means Hokum Humbug, Hoax, bragging, nonsense. About the origin of the word, there are different opinions. There may be an etymological relationship with the expression of hocus-pocus.

Hokum or Hokum blues is a style of music that was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, very popular in the United States. Hokum, a fast, danceable blues with slippery texts, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz.

Hokum was played by African-American blues musicians. Main representative of Hokum Blues was the guitar virtuoso Tampa Red, who with pianist Georgia Tom as the Hokum Boys made ​​1929 recordings. Her biggest hit was It's Tight Like That. The name Hokum Boys was later used by several bands again, sometimes with additives such as The Famous Hokum Boys or The New Hokum Boys.

Robert Johnson also took to They're Red Hot on a Hokum song, which was re-recorded in 2004 by Eric Clapton on his album Me and Mr. Johnson.

Since 2003 exists in the Upper Bavarian Moosburg ad Isar a metal band with the name " Hokum ", whose style of music, however, has nothing in common with that of the Hokum blues.

• Blues style