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Various Artists - Them Dirty Blues

Track listing:
Volume 1
  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
Volume 2
  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.