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Various Artists - Them Dirty Blues Cd2 (1963)

Track listing:
  1. Ants In My Pants Bo Carter 2:50
  2. Don't Tear My Clothes The Chicago Swans 2:44
  3. My Baby (Squeeze Me Again) Lil Johnson 3:08
  4. She Showed It All Napoleon Fletcher & Roosevelt Sykes 2:33
  5. Honey, You're So Good To Me Lil Johnson 2:56
  6. You Gotta Have That Thing The Dallas Jug Band 2:45
  7. If You Don't Give Me What I Want Lil Johnson & Mr. Sheiks 2:45
  8. Please Warm My Weiner Bo Carter 3:00
  9. Try And Get It Bea Foote 2:44
  10. Grinding Mill Johnny Temple 2:50
  11. If You See My Rooster Memphis Minnie 3:14
  12. Take It Easy, Greasy Lil Johnson 3:26
  13. Get 'em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts) Georgia White 2:51
  14. Southern Can Mama Blind Willie Mctell 2:57
  15. My Handy Man Ethel Waters & James P. Johnson 2:56
  16. Six Or Seven Times The Chocolate Dandies 3:26
  17. The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas James 'stump' Johnson 3:02
  18. My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More Edith Wilson 3:35
  19. I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie Now Oscar's Chicago Swingers 2:36
  20. What's That Smells Like Fish? Blind Boy Fuller 2:46
  21. Papa's Got Your Water On The Memphis Jug Band 2:33
  22. Honey Dripper Blues Hattie North & Roosevelt Sykes 3:24
  23. All Around Man Bo Carter 3:01
  24. I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone (Feat. Frankie 'half-Pint' Jaxon) Tampa Red And His Hokum Jug Band 2:48
  25. Uncle Ned, Don't Use Your Head Lonnie Johnson 3:12
  26. Full Cd In Flac With Cue 74:13

Notes

Mar 20, 1928-1963

The thin line between provocative and obscene, suggestive and disgusting, gets examined and stretched throughout the 50 tracks presented on the 1989 two-disc set Them Dirty Blues. Many of these songs could be deemed sexist using a '90s measuring stick; on the other hand, many are also quite funny, language notwithstanding. They are reflective of a time when audiences were willing to accept songs with either overt carnal themes or with an implicit, yet rather pronounced sexuality.