Parental Advisory – Your Grandparents Had Very Dirty Minds
December 11, 2014 Leave a comment
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)
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