NEW ORLEANS FUNK MEETS THE BEAT

I heard the Meters on the radio today and it reminded me that I had something by Art Neville waiting in the wings. It's a two sided cover of Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley" and it's a great example of how the Nevilles, in this case Art with the aid of Allen Toussaint, can funk-ify just about anything. Bo Diddley's original has a certain Diddley charm, what with the patented Bo Diddley beat, but Neville's cover is more engaging. I've no clue why anybody would cover a song about Bo Diddley, written by Bo Diddley, recorded and self-produced by Bo Diddley, but people do. Bo Diddley even covered it. Still, Art Neville...

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley mp3 at Internet Archive
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 69 mp3 at Internet Archive
Art Neville - Bo Diddley (Pt 1) mp3 at Internet Archive
Art Neville - Bo Diddley (Pt 2) mp3 at Internet Archive

A: NOT A SURFER

I saw Bo Diddly once, when he opened for the Clash. That should tell you how long ago it was. At the time, I was probably of the same mind as the Clash. I mean, it's Bo Diddley, a living legend! What could go wrong? A pick up backing band, that's what. No Duchess, no Jerome bringing it home. Just a bunch of hacks that think an easy gig is going up on stage and playing the chunk-a-chunk-chunk, chunk chunk thing for an hour. I was underwhelmed.

In the ensuing years I listed to Bo Diddley stuff from throughout his career and came to the conclusion that he made his best music during his first ten years and that after that, it's a mine field. That said, he did enough in that first ten years or so to keep you busy for a while. The first three below are lesser known non-hits, but of personal interest because they've been covered by bands you may be familiar with. "Before You Accuse Me" was covered by Creedence, "Diddy Wah Diddy" was covered by both Captain Beefheart and 8 Eyed Spy (Lydia Lunch). "Road Runner" was covered by the Zeros.

I thought I'd look for an oddball to include and found one with a rabbit hole attached. "Surf, Sink, or Swim", yeah, you guessed it, from the 1963 cash-in LP, Surfin' With Bo Diddley. First off, what a load of crap. Bo Diddley probably never touched a surfboard in his life. That's okay, surfing isn't a prerequisite for playing music. "Surf, Sink, or Swim" is a great instrumental. Surf music, it is not. I went to Discogs and came away, well, annoyed. Though credited to Bo Diddley, only four of the songs on Surfin' With Bo Diddley actually have Bo Diddley on them. Here's the kicker, by some accounts the other eight songs are by the Megatons. By other accounts they were actually recorded by Billy Lee Riley and his band, including "Surf, Sink, or Swim" on which Bo Diddley was supposedly overdubbed. What the fuck? On Diddley's record it says that he wrote it. Who to believe? I was tempted to do a full blown investigation into this matter but then it occurred to me: I don't think Fuzzgate was ever fully resolved.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me mp3 at Internet Archive
Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy mp3 at Internet Archive
Bo Diddley - Road Runner mp3 at Internet Archive
Bo Diddley - Surf, Sink or Swim mp3 at Internet Archive

DIDDY WAH DIDDY DEPOT

I was just thinking about this song a week or so ago and I remembered that 8 Eyed Spy used to play it live. 8 Eyed Spy was Lydia Lunch's band after Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. I always liked Lydia Lunch, she always seemed to have just the right amount of not giving a shit. Anyway, I made a mental note to look for her version the next time I ran into Bo Diddley's, and guess what? I just ran into Bo Diddley's. So here's that, an 8 Eyed Spy version and Captain Beefheart's because it's got a killer crunch to it. Then I started revisiting other versions. Now I'm diddy wah spent.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy mp3 at Internet Archive
8 Eyed Spy - Diddy Wah Diddy (streaming) at YouTube
Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy mp3 at Tumblr
The Astronauts - Diddy Wah Diddy (streaming) at YouTube
The Remains - Diddy Wah Diddy (streaming) at YouTube
The Sonics - Diddy Wah Diddy (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy at YouTube From Where The Action Is, a TV music variety show
Barry & The Remains - Diddy Wah Diddy at YouTube TV appearance, unidentified show
8 Eyed Spy - Diddy Wah Diddy at YouTube Live, 1979
Visit:
Diddy Wah Diddy (song) entry at Wikipedia

MET MONSTER. DOES NOT LIKE YOU.

It's Labor Day, or the tail end of it. It's a holiday for workers, of which I am one. So, fuck it. I'm gonna lame out because I can. Go over to Aquarium Drunkard for a half dozen oddball Bo Diddley tracks, including "I Don't Like You", a crackpot throwaway that's just plain stupid, which, of course, is why I like it. There's a few unrelated cuts down there that have been posted before, just to pad things.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley mp3 at Rocky 52
Bo Diddley - Diddley Daddy mp3 at Rocky 52
Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley mp3 at Rocky 52
Bo Diddley - Bo Meets the Monster mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Bo Diddley - Road Runner mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover mp3 at Rocky 52

The oddballs:

The Darker Side of Diddley at Aquarium Drunkard Six songs

NO MO' HOT DOGS

A few months ago, I read Getting Nowhere Fast: The Untold Story of Independent Music in San Diego 1976 - 1986 by Ray Brandes. Primarily about the local music scene, there is an antidote as told by Joel Kmak, a drummer and mainstay of the San Diego scene for decades. He describes a local show that actually predates the particular period, but is a crack up that makes me smile every time I imagine the scenario. One night Howlin' Wolf was playing a club gig, and Bo Diddley, who happened to be playing at another club across town, showed up unannounced and joined Howlin' Wolf onstage. Kmak says "So they're playing and then all of a sudden Howlin' Wolf gets off stage and goes back to the bar and orders a  bunch of hot dogs! He's sitting back at the bar, eating hot dogs and talking to the cute groupies! Meanwhile Bo Diddley's getting pissed because he's up on the stage playing Howlin' Wolf's show!"

It's with that scenario in mind that I went looking again for "The Super Super Blues Band" an album that features Bo Diddley, Howlin Wolf, and Muddy Waters (along with Otis Spann, Hubert Sumlin and Buddy Guy). It's not a compilation, but rather in-studio jams featuring different combinations of the assembled giants. The big reason I wanted to hear again it is because it includes a lot of wisecracks and ribbing that might shed some light on the goat-getting dynamic of the hot dog incident. In other words, I wanted to hear them giving each other shit. There might not be much of it in there, but, hey, I get to listen to Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters fuckin' around while I look for it.

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Listen:
The Super Super Blues Band - Spoonful mp3 at Internet Archive
The Super Super Blues Band - Diddley Daddy mp3 at Internet Archive
The Super Super Blues Band - Long Distance Call mp3 at Internet Archive
The whole LP:
The Super Super Blues Band at Internet Archive In the right column, under "Download options" click on "VBR MP3 Files"

INSTRO DIDDLEY

Kogar the Swinging Ape is up to his ol' tricks again over at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban. Out of nowhere comes a mix of thirty instrumentals, all from Bo Diddley. No clue what LPs or B-sides these are from having just run across this mix I haven't even started to look, but regardless, it's a no brainer. Bo Diddley shits riffs. I'm gonna right click and just fucking wallow in it.

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Listen:
Bo Knows Instro - 30 song mix at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban 30 individual mp3s in a zip
Teasers:
Bo Diddley - Aztec mp3 at Internet Archive In mix above 
Bo Diddley - Surf, Sink or Swim (streaming) at YouTube Not in mix
Bo Diddley - Fiery Eyes (streaming) at YouTube Not in mix

I CRY BULLSHIT ON THAT ONE

This is a weak cash in if there ever was one, this tie-in with surf. I've only heard a few songs on this album, and while they are good ol' fashioned throwaway instrumentals, they are Bo Diddly throwaways so they're better then most. But they are not surf.  "Aztec" down there is much closer, but it's not on that album. It all just goes to show you how big the surf music market was back in the day, when the Beatmeister himself turned surf slut.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Aztec mp3 at Internet Archive
From Surfin' With Bo Diddley:
Bo Diddley - Piggy Back Surfers (streaming) at YouTube
Bo Diddley - Surf, Sink or Swim (streaming) at YouTube
Bo Diddley - Fiery Eyes (streaming) at YouTube
More Bo in the old links (Scroll down)

EVERYBODY FARTS

Bo Diddley is not beyond reproach, but I'm sure not going to slag him. Even his oddball, misguided, not the Bo we know stuff is, at the very least, interesting, sometimes comically so. Here's a couple from about five years apart, mid-sixties to 1970, "I Don't Like You" slays me. Not in a classic Bo Diddly way, but in a Bo Diddley just throwing spaghetti at the wall way.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - I Don't Like You mp3 at Groove Addict
Bo Diddley - Ooh Baby mp3 at Groove Addict

MOST BADASS THING YOU'LL HEAR TODAY

I heard these two songs in successive days. Reason enough to get enveloped in the beat. May you do the same.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love? mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing mp3 at Boogaloo Time
Earlier Bo Diddley posts. Lot's more music, scroll down the page.

BO DIDDLEY MEETS THE SEARCH BOX.

A few days ago, I was in one of those happy go lucky fancy free moods that are all too rare. In my car, in no particular hurry, and not in the doghouse, not anywhere that I knew of anyway. For whatever reason, Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" started playing in my head. I don't know why, it just did. It set into motion a rewind of sorts, and for the last few days I've been revisiting songs that I've heard a thousand times, but haven't listened to in a while. Not necessarily to maintain that mood, but that's what it ended up doing. Bo Diddley, Liverbirds, Don and Dewey, wait...Bo Diddley? 

In the middle of all of the meandering, it occurred to me that I might have lost a link to a set of photos of early rockers and country and western artists taken by a young girl armed with a Brownie camera back in the fifties. (She took the photo above.) When I realized that I hadn't properly tagged that in an earlier post, and not remembering the gal's name, semi-panic set in. Thankfully that little search box on the top left of this and every other page saved the day. So, before I go any further, let me introduce you to the search box. Up there at the very top left hand corner (scroll up dummy). It is your friend. As many tags as there are in the right column (under "Index"), there are many posts here that lack proper tags. And being that there are 1857 posts here, I'm not about to start checking.

Anyway, just listen to these. This is some Grade A shit. And by all means, check the guitar solo on the Valiants' cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly". It's seriously fucked up, somewhere between awful and pure genius. I don't know about you, but the Wild-O-Meter here goes in both directions.

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Listen:
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell mp3 at David Fulmer (?)
Bo Diddley -  Pretty Thing mp3 at Boogaloo Time
The Liverbirds - Talking About You mp3 at The Rising Storm
Don and Dewey - Justine mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Nick Curran and the Low Lifes- Kill My Baby mp3 at KEXP.org
Little Richard - Rip It Up mp3 at Kid America Club
Esquerita - Crazy, Crazy Feeling mp3 at Rocky 52
The Valiants - Good Golly Miss Molly mp3 at De Discos y Monstruos
Visit:
Carol Coleman (née Mangham) - The Girl With the Brownie 

LOOSE. HAS MET MONSTER.

Bo Diddley's name isn't mentioned as often these days, not nearly as much as it was when he was alive. Not because it isn't mentioned by a lot of people, because it is. The decline in Bo Diddley references can be attributed to one thing. He's dead. He's no longer singing it, as he did thousands of times when he was alive. Sometimes it seems like half his songs have his name in the title or the lyrics. But that's part of the Bo package, He wrote himself into songs, made some of his own guitars, had his own personal beat, and he recorded and self produced some of his own records, in his own studio. He earned the right to say his own name, as many times as he wanted to. Whenever you hear the name Bo Diddley, don't think of some tireless self promoter, think of the man that practically invented DIY.

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Listen:

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley mp3 at Rocky 52

Bo Diddley - Diddley Daddy mp3 at Rocky 52

Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley mp3 at Rocky 52

Bo Diddley - Bo Meets the Monster mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is Loose mp3 at Hugh's Realm (?)
Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing mp3 at Boogaloo Time
Bo Diddley - Road Runner mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover mp3 at Rocky 52

Visit:

High resolution version of the photo above. 1260 x 1600

HERE'S YOUR KISSY KISSY POO POO

Being that I've not had a squeeze on Valentines Day more often than I've had one, I don't have a lot of experience in this field, never been very clear on what all the lovey dovey protocol is. Let me see if I've got this straight, you buy chocolates that taste like crap, buy flowers that will eventually die, go to a fancy dinner that you can't really afford, and top it all off with red stuff all over the place? Really? That's what you do to tell someone you love them? Like rolled tacos with guacamole and a six pack isn't romantic? Never could figure those courting rituals out. That said, who am I to stand in your way? I know it's already the day of, and late in the day at that, but they may help you close the deal. Two mixes over at the hibernating Spread the Good Word, just perfect for your petting party. They're streaming, but you can just turn down the lights and tell your partner you moved the stereo. Good mixes too, go there and check the song lists.  There's a few single songs down there too. Is that what's called foreplay?

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Listen:
Ronnie Self - You're So Right For Me mp3 at Rocky-52.net
The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel mp3 at Girl Jukebox
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love? mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Little Willie John - Fever mp3 at Clones Project
The mixes:
A Bloody Love Mix Part 2 at Spread the Good Word
A Bloody Love Mix Part 3 at Spread the Good Word

TWELVE BAR BICKERING

If you've ever run across the LP above and passed on it, it's understandable. What's the point when there are still Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley solo records that you hadn't picked up? Even if you just concentrated on their prime stuff, it would still a challenge. Here's the thing: there's just so much top notch stuff by each one of them, you'll never get to this one. Take a break. It may be relatively late (from 1967) but it's worth hearing just to hear them rib each other. Howlin' Wolf dissing Muddy Waters? Bo butting in? This is good stuff,

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Listen:
The Super, Super Blues Band - Spoonful mp3 at Tumblr (?) Howlin' Wolf, Muddy waters and Bo Diddley, with Otis Spann on piano
The Super, Super Blues Band - Little Red Rooster (streaming) at YouTube
The Super, Super Blues Band - Diddly Daddy (streaming) at YouTube
The Super, Super Blues Band - Goin' Down Slow (streaming) at YouTube

THE GIRL WITH THE BROWNIE

In case you don't know what a Brownie is (besides a dessert and a sneaky way to get stoned), it was a cheap plastic camera in the fifties. One of the first affordable mass produced cameras. Everybody had one, my Grandmother had one. They were super popular, like an Instamatic, Oh, wait, you don't know what an Instamatic is, do you? Okay, fuck, Brownie Cameras were like your damn phone, okay? Except they were cheap and they didn't have all that other shit on them.

Carol Coleman (née Mangham) had a Brownie camera. Back when she was in her mid-teens, she went to the Louisiana Hayride regularly with friends, the parents taking turns driving. She took photos with it, and has kept them for over a half century. I know what you're thinking, "Louisiana Hayride, so it was a bunch of photos of country and hillbilly acts." Though there are some (Webb Pierce, June Carter, Hank Snow, George Jones, etc), one thing you need to know is that this teenager with a cheap camera initially went to the Hayride to see a young Elvis Presley, She was into rock 'n' roll. Think of it, a stash of photos taken by a budding teenage rocker, at the Louisiana Hayride, in the mid-late fifties. Yeah. And despite the lack of any formal composition, or actual photographic quality, these are some of the coolest photos of some of these artists I've ever seen. Why? Because they're not staged, they're not professional at all. Because they were taken by a teenager just discovering rock 'n' roll. Oh hell yeah, I'm all in.

Listen to the handful of songs down there, and consider this was music teenage girls listened to, albeit only those with rocker tendencies. But still, what do kids that age listen to now? I don't care, but it's not this and is therefore, in all likelihood, inferior, I'd say that's a safe bet.

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The photos:
Portraits of the Fifties: Carol Coleman at Let's Keep the Fifties Spirit Alive NOTE: Many are high resolution. Click 'em.
Listen:
Little Richard - Keep A Knockin' mp3 at The New LoFi
Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Larry Williams - Slow Down mp3 at Mercury Paradise
Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - Cat Man mp3 at LYWL
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love? mp3 at Rocky 52
Ray Charles - I've Got A Woman mp3 at Rocky 52
Big Joe Turner - Honey Hush mp3 at Rockndog

SHAKE IT OFF

Alright already, back in business. (In case you're wondering, the culprit was a fried motherboard in the juice box.) After a few unplanned days away from here, I figured it'd be a good idea to dance with the one that brought me, in other words, rock 'n' roll. Straight up, no mop tops, hippies, spikey hair or phony hyphenated offshoots. No extended solos, bell bottoms, gongs, wah-wahs, or any other extraneous bullshit. A return to the womb, so to speak. So here you go, a mix of what should be considered essentials. If you dig any particular artist, check the index to the right. There's probably more of each floating around here.

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Listen:
Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - Cat Man mp3 at LYWL
Chuck Berry - It's My Own Business mp3 at the Rising Storm
The Rockin' R's - Crazy Baby mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Billy Lee Riley - Flying Saucers Rock n' Roll mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Johnny Carroll - Crazy, Crazy Lovin' mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Warren Smith - Ubangi Stomp mp3 at DavidFulmer.com
Bo Diddley - Mona mp3 at Mark Allen Interested Person
Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown mp3 at Uusikaupunki.fi
Roy Orbison - Go! Go! Go! mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Little Richard - Keep A Knockin' mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire mp3 at Bousculade
Don & Dewey - Justine mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Johnny Burnette & the Rock n' Roll Trio - Honey Hush mp3 at RocknDog.com

YABBA DO

Yikes! I already knew that Bo Diddley had his spells of musical slutiness, but the Hook? A word of warning: if you listen to the two songs below hoping for some good old fashioned Bo Diddley or John Lee Hooker, you're going to be disappointed. If you think of them as some seventies oddball half effort funk biscuits, you'll be okay. Really, these are for the curious. I do have to hand it to Bo for the thought provoking lyric "Yabba yabba yabba yabba dabba do, If you ain't careful, gonna bite you." Hooker's "Make It Funky" sounds like James Brown's tired uncle crashing the jam.

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Listen:

Bo Diddley - Bite You mp3 at DK Presents
John Lee Hooker - Make it Funky mp3 at DK Presents

WTF DEPT.

There are hair brained ideas, and there are really hair brained ideas. Marshall Chess, top dog at Cadet Concept, a subsidiary of Chess Records (owned by his pappy and uncle), had one helluva hair brained idea. Showing dwindling returns on Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, both on the Chess roster, he had to come up with something. The blues revival of the early sixties was shot. Bands that had leaned on the material of Chess artists, like the Stones and the Yardbirds, were moving on, and they were the ones selling beaucoup records. Without any idea of what future appreciation of the blues might be, he took a gamble.

Chess brought in a backing band to update the sound of the two artists; Pete Cosey, and Phil Upchurch on guitar, Louis Satterfield on bass, and Morris Jennings on drums. (I only mention this because after hearing a few of the cuts below, you may be curious. I was.) To say the sound was a departure for the Waters and Wolf would be an understatement. It would be what's now referred to an "epic fail" (Where do you kids come up with this shit?) In hindsight they might be okay, if you compared them to, say, Cactus, Led Zeppelin or other blues-based rock bands of the era. But Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf should have been above that. It's like trading a '57 Chevy in for a new Honda.



To his credit, Howlin' Wolf knew he was above it, and hated the idea from the git-go. He called the album "dog shit," and, according to guitarist Cosey, said "Why don't you take them wah-wahs and all that other shit and go throw it off in the lake — on your way to the barber shop?" The album cover of his LP, another Marshall Chess brainstorm, just made things worse. In big bold letters it said "This is Howlin' Wolf''s new album. He doesn't like it. He didn't like his electric guitar at first either." Not only did it have a negative effect on record sales, it had a negative effect on Wolf (and you do not want to piss off a 6'2" 300 lb drinking, smoking blues man). He had been playing electric guitar since the early fifties, and actually embraced it.

Muddy Waters, in contrast, seemed to go quietly for Electric Mud. He even allowed himself to be subjected to a make over for the inside album cover, the glorious results of which you can partially see above at the top of this post. What you don't see is that, in the full gatefold image, he's wearing a robe and sandals. So, obviously without resistance, his is not as colorful a story. But Waters and Wolf weren't the only ones caught in this chase for long hair dollars. Bo Diddley, also a Chess artist, had his LP, The Black Gladiator, a funky sample of which is below. Even twist nazi Chubby Checker got into the game with an LP of psychedelic mush, a couple samples of which are below. (Sadly, I couldn't find the complete "Stoned In the Bathroom.")

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Listen:
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You mp3 at Nodo50 (?)
Muddy Waters - Let's Spend the Night Together mp3 at Voiceblog (?)
Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful mp3 at Voiceblog (?)
Howlin' Wolf - Evil (streaming) at YouTube
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (remix) mp3 at Feems Gads! The remixer of this one ought to be glad that Howlin' Wolf isn't around.
Bo Diddley – Go For Broke mp3 at Funky 16 Corners Go there, it's a good post.
Chubby Checker - He Died mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Chubby Checker - Stoned In the Bathroom (:43 snippet) mp3 at Bongo Music
Visit:
Electric Mud at Wikipedia
The Howlin' Wolf Album at Wikipedia
Hot Lunch - Reviews of Electric Mud and This is Howlin' Wolf's New Album. Note: There are download links for both but I've tried neither. Click at your own risk.

LAST MINUTE DOG HOUSE PASS

Did you forget what day it is? Depending on what time zone you're in, this might be too late. A preemptive kiss up should have been posted last night, but I was too busy getting off on the Invictas. Regardless, if you're in the dog house, this might be your only chance for redemption. So here's a few sweets for your special someone. If you need to make your point with gusto, I'd start the plea Ronnie Self or the Sonics, move on to the mix from Funky 16 Corners and seal the deal with Phil Phillips. And, you can always lay it on real thick by handing over the mixes from Romeo Reverend Tom Frost that were posted a few days ago. But, as you can probably guess, I'm the last person you should take this sort of advice from.

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Listen:
Ronnie Self - You're So Right For Me mp3 at Rocky-52.net
The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel mp3 at Girl Jukebox
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love? mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Little Willie John - Fever mp3 at Diddywah
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love mp3 at Diddy Wah
Five more lovey doveys at Diddy Wah

Mixes:

Funky 16 Corners' Dance of Love - 18 song soul heavy mix from loverboy Larry Frank Wilson, Charlie Rich, Darrell Banks, Jackie Wilson, Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham, Charlie Earlands Erector Set, JJ Barnes, Spinners, Sand Pebbles, Platters, Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris, Len Barry, Producers, Lee Williams and the Cymbals, Broadways, Velvelettes, Soul Brothers Six, Wilson Pickett

Spread the Good Word's A Bloody Love Mix, Volume 3

John Buck & The Blazers, Bobby Freeman, Dorsey Burnette, Donnie & Ronnie, the Del-Vikings, Don Johnston, Marvin Rainwater, Piano Red, B.B. King, Ann Cole, the Valentinos, Soul Brothers Six, the Duetts, the Highway Q.C.'s, Del Shannon, Tom Reeves, Jimmy Kirkland, Lord Creator, Johnny Burnette, Sanford Clark, Eddie Cochran, the Four Dreamers, and the Animals

Spread the Good Word's A Bloody Love Mix, Volume 2
The Cramps, the World Famous Upsetters, Ronnie Love, Lavern Baker, Mickie Most & His Playboys, the Mustangs, the Righteous Brothers, Johnny Cash, the Wild Ones, Etta James, Benny Joy, Elvis Presley, Roy Hamilton, Bracey Everett, Shouting Thomas Torment, Billy Fury, Little Willie John, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Renato Carosone, Irving Aaronson & His Commanders, Ric Cartey, and the ever amorous Wild Man Fischer.

BO PLUS THE DUCHESS TIMES INFINITY

The video below slays me. Bo Diddley, with the Duchess..., ooh the Duchess. She, the total proto-Ivy. I was digging a lot of stuff about this one. Hell, first off, it's in shitty quality black and white, which is totally apropos. It gets so repetitive in the middle that it's almost Velvet Underground-ish. Then there's the dancers, and the trippy (for the time) prism effects. I started to fantasize about seeing that video at high volume in front of a wall of a hundred screens, all showing it simultaneously. Party 'til you puke.

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Listen:
Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy mp3 at Diddy Wah

JERK IS THE WORD

Who's idea was it? I have wanted to know for years, just who's idea it was for the Stones to change the phrase in Chuck Berry's "Come On," that goes "some stupid jerk trying to reach another number" to "some stupid guy trying to reach another number"? Being that it was done on their very first 45, it could be the secret of the whole dynamic of the band. What if Jagger and Richards agreed about everything else up to that point, but Jagger was insistent enough about changing the word "jerk" to "guy," that Richards assumed the "fuck off" attitude of the band, right then and there? Or could it have been the idea of Andrew Loog Oldham? Maybe they had a vote. Who knows? I thought that the answer to this lingering question would be in Richards' tell-all autobiography Life, but no. He doesn't tell all. Not of what I want to know.

The answer's probably out there, in some Stones book, or in the mental database of any real Stones fiend. Regardless, I was reminded of that when I ran into a couple posts at Boogie Woogie Flu. Both posts are about the Stones' early material, particularly the covers they did, and they're a nice mix of the covers original versions, early Stones oddballs and a couple of unreleased tracks. I'm not linking directly to any Stones stuff (just go there to get them). Let's just say that this time it's because they changed the lyrics to a Chuck Berry song on their first record. Yeah, they're lucky this big shot listens to them at all.

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Listen:
Chuck Berry - Come On mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Want To Be Loved mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Bo Diddley - Mona mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Visit:
Gather No Moss - Rolling Stones post, part 1 (13 more songs) at Boogie Woogie Flu
England's Newest Hitmakers - Rollings Stones post, part 2 (9 more songs) at Boogie Woogie Flu