VA - Eat To The Beat
{The Dirtiest Of Them Dirty Blues}
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Label: Bear Family Records
For those who believe that "wardrobe malfunction"s and sex-crazed hip-hop heroes are inarguable proof of the coarsening of our culture and an omen of the decline of western civilization, this compilation will set you straight. Lascivious music is not a modern invention, but long part and parcel of the American scene, with Eat to the Beat: The Dirtiest of the Dirty Blues pulling together "The Dirtiest of Their Dirty Blues," as the subtitle baldly states. That's no idle boast, these 28 songs are enough to give a censor conniptions and send the modest into a swoon of shock. Sure, some of the songs are loosely veiled in metaphor, but there's no mistaking the meaning of "Rotten Cocksuckers' Ball," "Somebody Else Was Suckin' My Dick Last Night," or "Mother Fuyer." Jaw dropping indeed, but in case you still don't believe what you're hearing, the enclosed booklet boldly reproduces every song's lyrics. Amazingly, the bulk of them were cut in the post-war period for jukebox play, where the raunchiest of the bunch proved the biggest money-spinners. The rise of formatted radio put paid to the jukebox's power, and led inevitably to the swift demise of this popular, if now risqué art form. The sumptuous packaging belies the grit within, with the CD enclosed in a cardboard digipack that resembles an old vinyl sleeve, and a 90-page booklet providing bios of every artist within, info on each song, and, of course, the lyrics. As for the music itself, blues is only one of the featured styles, big-band jazz, boogies, R&B, doo wop, and bebop all raise their salacious heads to boot. Performing the provocative numbers are a host of international names — Jackie Wilson, Dinah Washington, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Clovers and the Dominoes among them, as well as stars instantly recognizable to any blues/R&B fans. Deft remastering restores the numbers to as pristine-as-possible quality, a must for collectors. And while collectors are obviously the main market for this compilation, so much great music and fun are to be found within that one suspects modern bands will soon be offering up covers, samples, and snippets of many of these songs in the near future. --Jo-Ann Greene, AllMusicGuide
Track Listing:
01. Annisteen Allen & Her Home Town Boys - I Want a Man (Who's Gonna Do Right)
02. Dirty Red - Mother Fuyer
03. Dinah Washington - Long John Blues
04. Tom Archia & His All Stars - Fishin' Pole
05. Cousin Joe with Pete Brown's Brooklyn Blue Blowers - Weddin' Day Blues
06. Amos Milburn - Hard Driving Blues
07. Crown Prince Waterford - Move Your Hand, Baby
08. Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends - Don't Come Too Soon
09. Wynonie Harris - I Like My Baby's Pudding
10. The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
11. Moose Jackson - Big Ten-Inch Record
12. The Clovers - Rotten Cocksucker's Ball
13. Dave Bartholomew & His Orchestra - My Ding-A-Ling
14. The Treniers - Poon-Tang
15. Jesse Powell - The Walkin' Blues (Walk Right In, Walk Right Out)
16. The '5' Royales - Laundromat Blues
17. Wynonie Harris - Keep On Churnin'
18. Dinah Washington - Big Long Slidin' Thing
19. The Blenders - Don't Fuck Around with Love
20. Dorothy Ellis - Drill Daddy Drill
21. The Royals - Work with Me, Annie
22. The Toppers - (I Love To Play Your Piano) Let Me Bang Your Box
23. Jackie Wilson & LaVern Baker - Think Twice (Version X)
24. Snatch & the Poontangs - Two-Time Slim
25. Chick Willis - Stoop Down Baby
26. Boozoo Chavis - L.A. Women Love Uncle Bud
27. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Bite It
28. Fred Wolff Combo - Somebody Else Was Suckin' My Dick Last Night
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