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Bessie Smith

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    November 25, 2011

    Five Platters of Raunchy Food Blues

    Bo Carter​As we discovered in an earlier post, many songs about food are mostly about trying to get laid but it would appear for a lot of early blues musicians every song about food was about sex. Now perhaps it's just my prurient imagination and I'm misinterpreting these great blues classics but ... More >>

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