[btilly]

Sadly, that's still under copyright.

The problem was that various music copyrights were being dated from the 1970s for historical reasons despite the music itself being much older. Congress passed a law fixing a whole lot of that in one lump. Which is why music from the 1920s becomes public domain at the same time as movies from the early 1930s.

[kristopolous]

I guess it's Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE

Alright, that's fine for now. The distance between this and modern pop music is actually razor thin. Update the instrumentation with synthesizers, give it percussions and you'd be done.

Interesting, the covers are further away from modern pop than this is