"THE COPULATIN' BLUES"

For the last century and more, the only place in a black American's world safe from the bossman's grasp has been the bedroom. A sense of this freedom in all its audacious raunch and hilarity fairly leaps from this brilliant anthology of bawdy blues recordings from the late 1920s through the 1930s. There are many raw delights to savor, such as Sidney Bechet's thrilling clarinet on "Preachin' Blues"; Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band with horny little Frankie Jaxon vamping his lead vocals on "My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll"; "Don't You Make Me High" by Merline Johnson, the Yas-Yas Girl; and "Get Off with Me" by Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson. The most outrageous gem in the trove is "Winin' Boy" by Jelly Roll Morton, who, in black tie and tails, performed this vulgar masterpiece before unsuspecting governmental dignitaries in the Library of Congress just before World War II. --Alan Greenberg, Amazontrax:
1. Preachin' Blues - Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Footwarmers 2. Stavin' Chain (That Rockin' Swing, #1) - Lil Johnson 3. New Rubbin' On that Darn Old Thing - Oscar's Chicago Swingers 4. The Candy Man - Rosetta Howard & Harlem Hamfats 5. Take Your Hands Off My Mojo - Coot Grant & Kid Wesley Wilson 6. Don't You Make Me High - Merline Johnson, The Yas-Yas Girls 7. Wet It! - Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon & The Harlem Hamfats 8. Press My Button, Ring My Bell - Lil Johnson w/Black Bob 9. You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark - Alberta Hunter 10. Get Off With Me - Coot Grant & Kid Wesley Wilson 11. How Do They Do It That Way? - Victoria Spivey & Red Allen's Orchestra 12. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It (Before I Give It Away) - Georgia White 13. Yas! Yas! Yas! - Jimmy Strange (The Yas-Yas Man) 14. My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll - Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band w/Half Pint Jaxon 15. Stavin Chain (#2) - Johnny Temple & The Harlem Hamfats 16. Please Warm My Weiner - Bo Carter 17. You Stole My Cherry - Lil Johnson 18. Sissy Man Blues - Connie McLean's Rhythm Boys 19. You Can't Sleep In My Bed - Mary Dixon 20. Winin' Boy - Jelly Roll Morton 21. It's Tight Like That - Clara Smith 22. Shave 'Em Dry - Lucille Bogan & Walter Roland
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