We made it to Friday yall. Godspeed! Here are some more of the nasty women and their dirty blues (don't worry Tyren, I'm gonna give Millie her own week soon!) Sweet Emma "Sweet Emma" Barrett (March 25, 1897, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 28, 1983) was an American self-taught jazz pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Nasty Women Week
Dirty Blues
Thursday Afternoon Thread: Bad Hombres Week
My delicate delicate ears!! Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson (April 22, 1919 – July 31, 1989) was a blues inger and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s. He is considered a performer of dirty blues, because of the suggestive nature of some of his songs, such as "I Want a Bowlegged Woman" and "Big Ten Inch Record". … [Read more...] about Thursday Afternoon Thread: Bad Hombres Week
Tuesday Afternoon Thread: Bad Hombres Week
My young ears are certainly getting a lesson this week from the dirty elders! Planting the Seed: Dirty Blues, the early years. Early Blues in general is a lyrically limited form-- broads, booze and sex have a virtual stranglehold on the blues singers' mind, give or take a cameo appearance by the devil himself, (i.e.-- the works of Robert Johnson or Peetie Wheatstraw) … [Read more...] about Tuesday Afternoon Thread: Bad Hombres Week
Tuesday Open Thread: Nasty Women Week
Good Morning POU! We are featuring 2 Nasty Women today, and BOY ARE THEY NASTY! Lil Johnson (1920s-1930s, dates and places of birth and death unknown) was a singer who recorded dirty blues and hokum songs in the 1920s and 1930s. Let's Get Drunk and Truck … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Nasty Women Week