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Old 07-17-2016, 07:08 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi View Post
Gotta get some Andre Williams into this thread. Like Wynonie Harris, he's more rhythm & blues than straight-up blues...



^ That song is so politically incorrect - it's great! In some liner notes I once saw a song described as "a slow-drag whorehouse number". Don't really know what it means, but I feel it might apply to the leisurely rhythm of Jail Bait.

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Originally Posted by whipsy48 View Post
Well,you got your answer and also schooled some of us in the process,
^ Many thanks for your positive feedback, whipsy, and welcome to MB!
Sometimes posting in these threads feels like chucking stones into a pond so it's really nice to hear that someone at least has got something out of it. Any contributions of your own to make?

Meanwhile, here's Dana Gillespie's better-than-the-original cover of a Clarence Williams song, from an album that she rather wittily called Blue Job :-


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