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PLEASE USE THE PLAYER BELOW THE ALBUM COVER TO LISTEN TO THE SONGS

EXCERPTS FROM:

  1. Wall Street Rag
  2. Heliotrope Bouquet
  3. Bethena
  4. The Entertainer
  5. Rose Leaf Rag
  6. Swipesy
  7. A Real Slow Drag
  8. Stoptime Rag
  9. Weeping Willow
  10. Maple Leaf Rag
  11. The Chrysanthemum
  12. The Ragtime Dance
  13. Sugar Cane
  14. Felicity Rag
  15. Eugenia
  16. The Sycamore
  17. Fig Leaf Rag
  18. Binks' Waltz
  19. A Breeze From Alabama
  1. Elite Syncopations
  2. Palm Leaf Rag
  3. Scott Joplin's New Rag
  4. Searchlight Rag
  5. The Streneous Life
  6. The Cascades
  7. The Easy Winners
  8. Gladiolus Rag
  9. Pine Apple Rag
  10. Something Doing
  11. The Favorite
  12. Paragon Rag
  13. Reflection Rag
  14. Sunflower Slow Drag
  15. Kismet Rag
  16. Nonpareil
  17. Peacherine Rag
  18. Magnetic Rag
  19. Leola
  20. Solace

     The only two rags that are played complete here are Heliotrope Bouquet (#2) and Leola (#38). The best examples of soulfulness are Wall Street Rag (#1) and Solace (#39). In his late years, Joplin composed an opera entitled "Treemonisha," which one renowned critic called "a glorious compendium of beautiful Afro-American music, authentic and pure, the work of a genius." But it was a disastrous flop, which crushed Joplin and ultimately led to his premature death. It's the haunting strains of A Real Slow Drag (#7) that ring down the opera's curtain.