Parental Advisory – Your Grandparents Had Very Dirty Minds

The original blues age was responsible for some of the dirtiest songs ever recorded, some of which would still struggle to get past the censor now – the fist title of this list certainly would anyway. Our ancestors obviously loved to groove to a filthy record as much as we do nowadays. A more innocent age? Obviously not as it turns out. For your… erm… pleasure… I have assembled a list of ten of the most disgusting blues classics I could find. I’m not an expert on this genre by any means, so if anybody can alert me to any more of these nasty ditties I would be really grateful (please add them in the comments below). In the meantime, happy listening!

1) Lucille Bogan – Shave ‘Em Dry (1935)

2) Laughing Charlie Lincoln – Doodle Hole Blues (1930). This blues singer was the brother of the more well-known Barbecue Bob and occasionally recorded with him.

3) Harry Roy – My Girl’s Pussy (1931). Not a blues song but absolutely hilarious.

4) Bo Carter – ‘Please Warm My Weiner’ (1934)

5) Blind Boy Fuller – ‘Sweet Honey Hole’ (1937)

6) Clara Smith – It’s Tight Like That (1929)

7) Ruth Brown – If I can’t sell it, I’ll sit on it

8) Victoria Spivey – Black Snake Blues (1926). This version was recorded at The Folk Blues Festival of 1963.

9) The Clovers – Rotten Cocksuckers’ Ball (1954). Although this might seem like a hoax, it is not. Doo-wop groups often recorded ‘dirty’ versions of their songs and some of these have since been collected on compilations.

10) Hattie Hart – I Let My Daddy Do That (1934)