"BED SPRING POKER" - Meat In Motion 1926-1951

Long before CDs were obliged to carry parental advisory stickers or the BBC banned anything it considered 'iffy', records regularly contained smutty, 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' lyrics. This was certainly true of the Blues, where double-entendre and innuendo have long played a major role. Indeed, one glance at the songs featured herein leaves little doubt as to their true meaning, as titles such as 'I Want A Bowlegged Woman', 'I Found Your Keyhole', 'I Want My Fanny Brown', 'Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon', 'You Got To Give Me Some Of It' and 'It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion' clearly indicate. Champion Jack Dupree certainly wasn't auditioning for Holby City when he sang"I operates on women and I don't fool around with men, I said turn over baby and let me stick my needle in." 48 tracks of sheer genius. (Bluebeat Music)trax:
disc 1
1. Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin' Hopkins 2. Kitchen Man - Bessie Smith 3. Lemon Man - Dan Pickett 4. Stinging Snake Blues - Madelyn James 5. Pig Meat Papa - Lead Belly 6. How You Want It Done - Big Bill Broonzy 7. I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan - Margaret Carter 8. She's Got Good Dry Goods - Little Buddy Doyle 9. Bed Spring Poker - Mississippi Sheiks 10. I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips - Cleo Gibson 11. She Want To Sell My Monkey - Tampa Red 12. You Got To Give Me Some Of It - Buddy Moss 13. Butcher Shop Blues - Bernice Edwards 14. The Best Jockey In Town - Lonnie Johnson 15. I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy - Blind Boy Fuller 16. Keep On Eatin' - Memphis Minnie 17. That Stuff You Sell Ain't No Good - Walter Davis 18. Comb Your Kitty Cat - Ralph Willis 19. Shave 'em Dry - Lucille Bogan 20. Lead Pencil Blues - Johnny Temple 21. Mouse's Ear Blues - Cliff Carlisle 22. Crawlin' King Snake - Tony Hollins 23. I'm A Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace 24. My Baby's Playground - Roosevelt Sykes
disc 2
1. Sarah Jane - Bill "Jazz" Gillum 2. My Daddy Was A Jockey - John Lee Hooker 3. I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart 4. I'm Gonna Shave You Dry - Walter Roland 5. Carpenter Man Blues - Lee Brown 6. Get Up Off Your Knees - Ethel Waters 7. Catfish Blues - Bobo Thomas 8. Bed Springs Blues - Jimmie Gordon 9. Love Operation - Barrelhouse Annie 10. Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Charlie Pickett 11. Sam - The Hot Dog Man - Lil Johnson 12. I Found Your Keyhole - Al Miller 13. Eight Hour Woman - Edith Johnson 14. I Think You Need A Shot - Champion Jack Dupree 15. Good Cabbage - Victoria Spivey 16. Don't Give My Lard Away - James "Stump" Johnson 17. Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee - Clara Smith 18. Bread Pan - Roosevelt Sykes 19. Dirty Butter - Minnie Wallace 20. Cigarette Blues - Bob C Carter 21. I Want My Fanny Brown - Wynonie 'Mr Blues' Harris 22. Mountain Oysters - Eddie Davis 23. I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Bull Moose Jackson 24. It Ain't The Meat - The Swallows
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