"Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon" The Ultimate Rude Blues Collection

Rude, Rude Blues, Expletives, Innuendo And Just Plain Rude - When naughty Chuck Berry slipped 'My Ding a Ling' into the charts in 1972 he exposed a musical phenomenon that had a long, long history. People have been singing about sex since the dawn of popular music - and since the roots of rock are black one's, it+¡s no surprise the '40s onwards saw the blues community employing as many imaginative terms to describe 'the act' as there were ways of doing it! Rock 'n' Roll of course, is just one. This hugely popular double CD collection isn't so much X-rated as exhilarating, offering rib tickling rump shakers - each with their own nudge-nudge, wink wink meaning. The politically correct among us should check their pulse rate and stick to Abba. But if PC to you means the boys in blue or your home computer, you're old enough - and broad minded enough - to enjoy this feast of fleshy delights. (The Guardian)Blues of yore was often littered with double-entendres so it really isn't too hard to put together a Rude Blues Collection. This sure ain't the only one but it's a good one. Sometimes here the title of the song is the most risque it gets and some are quite tame. If you enjoy older blues, regardless of the sexual references then this double disc of 49 tracks is a field day. This can be played in mixed morality groups with little fear of offending anyone. To offend and to hear raunchier tunes go out and buy (well online that is)"Raunchy Rock & Roll". It has 25 tracks by artists whom are mostly 40s & 50s R&B. On the disc under review you'll find titles like "How You Want It Done" (Big Bill Broonzy) but on Raunchy R&R they get right to it with titles like "Did He Eat Your Titty" (Perversions). Tamer here but the tunesmith quality is much greater. As stated, this set can be listened to wherever you are and there are some household blues artists on these discs: Blind Boy Fuller, Wynonie Harris, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bessie Smith and the aforementioned Broonzy for example. Good stuff. (NPR)

trax disc 1:
1. Catfish Blues - Bobo Thomas 2. I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Bullmoose Jackson 3. Hard Lead Pencil - The Honeydripper 4. Little Red Dress (Drawers) - Jimmie Gordon 5. Love Operation - Barrelhouse Annie 6. Blue Bloomer Blues - Alex Moore 7. Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon - Charlie Pickett 8. Doodle Hole Blues - Charlie Lincoln 9. One More Greasing - Georgia Pine Boy 10. Kitchen Man - Bessie Smith 11. You Got To Give Me Some Of It - Buddy Moss 12. Dressed With The Drawers - Carl Rafferty 13. Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee - Clara Smith 14. Lemon Man - Dan Pickett 15. Bed Spring Poker - Mississippi Sheiks 16. Show Me What You've Got - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom 17. I Want My Hands On It - Big Bill Broonzy 18. I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy - Blind Boy Fuller 19. I Think You Need A Shot - Champion Jack Dupree 20. Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie 21. The Best Jockey In Town - Lonnie Johnson 22. Don't Like The Way You Do - Blind Squire Turner 23. My Daddy Was A Jockey - John Lee Hooker 24. Pig Meat Papa - Leadbelly
trax disc 2:
1. Sweet Honey Hole - Blind Boy Fuller 2. Banana In Your Fruitbasket - Bo Carter 3. Mouse's Ear Blues - Cliff Carlisle 4. I Want Plenty Of Grease In My Frying Pan - Margaret Carter 5. Let Me Play With Your Poodle - Lightnin' Hopkins 6. I Let My Daddy Do That - Hattie Hart 7. She Want To Sell My Monkey - Tampa Red 8. I'm A Mighty Tight Woman - Sippie Wallace 9. Phonograph Blues - Robert Johnson 10. She Shook Her Gin - Barbecue Bobb 11. How You Want It Done - Big Bill Broonzy 12. Bed Spring Blues - Jimmie Gordon 13. Fish House Blues - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom 14. I Want My Fanny Brown - Wynonie Harris 15. I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips - Cleo Gibson 16. Mother Fuyer - Dirty Red 17. Good Cabbage - Victoria Spivey 18. It Ain't The Meat - The Swallows 19. My Baby's Playground - Roosevelt Sykes 20. Dirty Butter - Minnie Wallace 21. Wipe It Off - Lonnie Johnson 22. My Man O'War - Lizzie Miles 23. She's Got Good Dry Goods - Little Buddy Doyle 24. Don't Give My Lard Away - James 'Stump' Johnson 25. Cigarette Blues - Bo Carter
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