Most of the existing recordings of this pianist were the result of field recording trips to St. Louis by the Okeh label. Searcy's own group, credited as the Searcy Trio and featuring cornetist Clifford King and clarinetist Edgar Green, recorded a pair of sides for the label in the spring of 1926. Both the titles and performances of Kansas Avenue Blues and East St. Louis Stomp indicate that this material was pretty much extemporized on the spot. While the pianist on recordings by Cora Perkins might be either Searcy or his hardy competitor, James Johnson, there is no question of the former man's presence on sessions behind singers Irene Scruggs or Helen Humes. The pianist can also be heard on a handful of reissue collections featuring Lonnie Johnson in various contexts. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi