It sounds more like jazz/ragtime to my ears, at least. But this recording was before Hart Wand added lyrics to his song:
And suddenly, unmistakeably, it's the blues.
- There's a place I know, folks won't pass me by,
- Dallas, Texas, that's the town, I cry, oh hear me cry.
- And I'm going back, going back to stay there 'til I die, until I die.
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Livery Stable Blues came out on the Victor label in 1917. Not by a black band but probably was copyrighted and thus likely beat the other one by a year or so. Liberty Stable Blues was considered a jazz song with the word "blues" in the name, same as the one you mentioned. Both are obviously jazz songs.
Glenn, I should have pointed out in my post that the song was copyrighted in 1912. Seems it was written earlier.
Sounds like a few - very few - places in New Orleans.
Record labels sometimes used to label music by black artists as "blues" whether it fit the current definition or not.
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