« Back to Top Level | Various Artists

Various Artists - Them Dirty Blues Cd1 (1963)

Track listing:
  1. Bring It On Home To Grandma The Mississippi Mud Mashers 2:50
  2. (Good Mornin' Susie) I'm Gonna Beat Your Bread Lee 'pork Chop' Green 3:10
  3. Worn Out Engine Blues Blind Boy Fuller 3:07
  4. She Done Sold It Out The Memphis Jug Band 2:53
  5. Big Leg Mama Kokomo Arnold 2:42
  6. Daddy, You've Got Everything Mary Dixon 2:50
  7. Take A Pro Armed Forces Radio Orchestra 2:27
  8. The Hottest Stuff In Town Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs 2:49
  9. Ram Rod Blues The Mississippi Sheiks 2:51
  10. Ash Can Blues Bob Clifford 2:58
  11. Caught Us Doing It The Hokum Boys 2:45
  12. Blue Bloomer Blues Whistlin' Alex Moore 3:13
  13. Mister Mary Blues Speedy Holmes 2:48
  14. I Want Some Of Your Pie Blind Boy Fuller 2:43
  15. Messin' Around Bud Jackson's Swanee Serenaders 2:59
  16. Somebody's Been Usin' That Thing Holmes And Howard 2:37
  17. Big Mama Walter Roland 2:31
  18. Loose Like That The Mississippi Sheiks 2:59
  19. Once Or Twice Lonnie Johnson & Spencer Williams 3:04
  20. Shake It, Baby Blind Boy Fuller 2:52
  21. I Can't Use That Thing Connie Mclean's Rhythm Boys 2:55
  22. If You Can't Get Five, Take Two Georgia White 2:57
  23. Tricks Ain't Walkin' Jimmy Rushing 3:11
  24. Tired As I Can Be Bessie Jackson 2:38
  25. You've Got To Save That Thing Ora Alexander 3:16
  26. Full Cd In Flac With Cue 72:20

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.