Artist: Various Artists
Title: Risque Blues Vol. 4
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Red Devil Records
Genre: Dirty Blues
Quality: 320 kbps
Total Time: 73:09
Total Size: 172 MB
Tracklist:
01 Bob How - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:46)
02 Black Bob - Press My Button, Ring My Bell (3:15)
03 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:11)
04 Milton Brown & His Brownies - Somebody's Been Using That Thing (2:50)
05 Ethel Waters - My Handy Man (2:53)
06 Alberta Hunter - You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark (2:58)
07 Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys - My Girl's Pussy (3:10)
08 Ruth Wallis - Queer Things (3:24)
09 Bo Carter - Warm My Weiner (2:55)
10 Kansas City Joe - She Wouldn't Give Me None (2:56)
11 Yank Rachell - Tappin' That Thing (2:49)
12 Sophie Tucker - He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday (2:53)
13 The Light Crust Doughboys - Pussy, Pussy, Pussy (2:28)
14 Unkown - Once A Boy (3:03)
15 Six Jumping Jacks - Masculine Women, Feminine Men (3:01)
16 Memphis Minnie - Lean Meat Won't Fry (2:43)
17 Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some Of Your Pie (2:39)
18 Bo Carter - You're Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
19 Memphis Minnie - Dirty Mother For You (2:45)
20 Bessie Smith - I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (2:45)
21 Kokomo Arnold - Sissy Man Blues (3:05)
22 Kokomo Arnold - The Twelves (Dirty Dozens) (3:07)
23 Helen Kane - I've Got It (But It Don't Do Me No Good) (2:23)
24 Harry Roy - She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor (2:47)
25 Unknown - Silent George (4:05)
Dirty blues encompasses forms of blues music that deal with socially taboo subjects, including sexual acts and/or references to drug use of some kind. Due to the sometimes graphic subject matter, such music was often banned from radio and only available on a jukebox. The style was most popular in the years before World War II and had a revival in the 1960s.
Many songs used innuendo, slang terms, or double entendres, such as Lil Johnson's "Press My Button (Ring My Bell)" ("Come on baby, let's have some fun/Just put your hot dog in my bun"). However, some were very explicit. The most extreme examples were rarely recorded at all, Lucille Bogan's obscene song Shave 'em Dry (1935) being a rare example ("by far the most explicit blues song preserved at a commercial pre-war recording session").
The more noteworthy musicians who utilised the style included Bo Carter, Bull Moose Jackson, Myra Johnson, The Lamplighters, Harlem Hamfats, Wynonie Harris, and Hank Ballard and The Midnighters.
