Uncle John's Bongos

Johnnie & Jack - Uncle John's Bongos (45)

The Dixielanders - Uncle John's Bongos (45)

Woman Hungry (MP3)

Porter Wagoner - Woman Hungry

"When a man gets woman hungry, he'll find a meal somewhere."

This brilliant track, from songwriter Gene Chrysler (sometimes Crysler), pushes food/sex metaphors to their limit and was a minor hit for Porter Wagoner in late 1967.

Jungle 45 of the Week!

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WARD AND BETTY KIMBALL

BETTY KIMBALL
1912 - 2010

The Other White Meat

From Loretta Lynn's You're Cookin' It Country Cookbook

The Detroit Breakdown Is Coming

Saturday July 31st Hearst Plaza Stage @ Lincoln Center

2:00-2:30 - Eddie Kirkland

2:30 - 4:30 Motor City Soul Revue featuring:
Dennis Coffey, Melvin Davis, Spyder Turner, The Velvelettes

4:30-4:55 - Artist Q & A

Saturday July 31st Damrosch Park Bandshell

5:00-5:45 - Death

6:00-7:00 - Gories

7:15-8:15 - ? & the Mysterians

8:30-9:30 - Mitch Ryder

All Lincoln Center Out Of Doors events are free and take place on Lincoln Center's plazas between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, from West 62nd Street to West 65th Street.

Presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation.

Eddie Kirk - The Grunt (45)

CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING

Southern Fried Chicken (MP3)

Hank Penny - Southern Fried Chicken (2:24)


And while on the subject of chicken, I'll never have a better excuse for blogging this photo depicting country entertainers Johnny Russell and Kenny Price in the aftermath of a 1975 fried chicken eating contest held in Akron, Ohio. Price won handily, wolfing down 18 pieces to Russell's 15.

Throat Slicin' Time

Photo: Allan Grant, 1952.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

THE SPINNERS - HEEBIE JEEBIES

HARVEY FUQUA

1929-2010

Jungle 45 of the Week!

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Red Beans and Rice

This is one of Booker T. and the MGs mightiest performances, but (and please feel free to correct me on this if I'm wrong) it's one that seems to be unavailable anywhere other than the original 45. There's a live version that shows up on a couple of greatest hits compilations, and it's good, but not this good. On the Stax/Volt live in Norway DVD, whoever did the titles calls one of the tunes Red Beans and Rice, but it's actually Tic-Tac-Toe. Not that the titles matter too much.

The MGs were somehow more than the sum of their parts, but what parts! Without overanalyzing things too much, take a listen to the greatest drummer who ever lived, Al Jackson, Jr. The rat-a-tat drum fills he plays starting at about 1:13 in (and by the way, what the hell is Steve Cropper doing there? Jesus.) are simple enough, nothing flashy, and technically speaking anyone could learn to do 'em, but you try it and see how it sounds. Further proof that it ain't what you do, it's the way how you do it. "It ain't what you eat, it's the way how you chew it" is a topic best left for a future posting.

Booker T. and the MGs - Red Beans and Rice

Thanks to Bill Judkins for the loan of the 45.