 | After our blog post Weird Music: The Dirty Blues it seemed right that this Mix-Tape Monday should be related to the bizarre sub-genre of the Blues. The mix-tape represents an across the board look at those risqué and sometimes down-right in-your-face songs form some of the most famous Blues artists over the years. From Delta Blues of the 1930s, through swing Blues and to whacked Rhythm 'n' Blues of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. It's all here for your aural listening pleasure. From platters of pure carnal desires, misogynistic melodies and down-home dirty discs. |
| Thinly veiled food as phallic symbol tracks like Bo Carter's Banana In Your Fruit Basket (1931) and I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll by husband and wife team Butterbeans & Susie from way back in 1927. With his hit Big Ten Inch Record (1952), Bull Moose Jackson pulls no pushes. No wonder he's says that he ...Wants A Bowlegged Woman (1948). But the infamous Lucille Bogan really puts it all out there when she asks to Shave 'Em Dry (1935). Then there's the scatalogical themed fun of Stepped In What (1991) by Johnnie Johnson and the brilliant Constipation Blues from Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1969. Just goes t show the Blues ain't all about your dog dying and your woman leaving you. | |
| Download Bizarre Blues here. | |
