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Blues - Classic Blues
9/16/2003
Greasy, sweaty bar-room blues. Johnny Tolbert has the most convincing "bomp skiddy bomp" I've ever heard, & when you hear Tiny Topsy sing you just know this is a big, big "Tiny". ---- This is a 100-min …
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Pop
9/9/2003
Another heapin' helpin' of that roof-raisin' rip-it-up rebel-rousing raving rampaging rattle-your-cage rrrrockabillyyy!
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Theme
9/2/2003
In all the huge repertoire of songs about food, have you ever noticed how few are about health food & eating your vegetables? From junk food to soul food, that's the range of the musician's diet . . . …
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Mixed Genre
7/29/2003
So, I was listening to the Barrence Whitfield 'Bip Bop Bip' & it got me thinking of the Don Covay version, & everything else just followed naturally, by a strict & inexorable logic -- the musicians her …
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Theme
7/15/2003
This is a going-away present for Diana, who's quitting the computer biz & joining her husband in the truck-driving game. I know that every diesel stop in America has a K-TEL collection of trucking tune …
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Theme
6/17/2003
Being that kissing is something everyone thinks about all the time (what? okay, then, just try going for three seconds without thinking of kissing: 1,2,3 - ha! see?) -- it's not surprising that so many …
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Single Artist
6/10/2003
To me, Celia Cruz is one of the great voices of the 20th century - and it doesn't hurt that she's worked with so many great Cuban musicians. Here I've gathered a sampling of some of her most scorching …
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Theme
5/27/2003
A selection of fine whines: It's not fair! Everything always happens to me! Bad luck & trouble have been my only friends . . . If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all. Why me? I'm so …
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Theme
5/8/2003
'I've got a hip-twitchin' mama from New Orleans, she twitches her hips like a washing machine . . . ' -- Not to get too Oedipal about it, these songs all celebrate the eternal feminine in a swinging sp …
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