January 2010

The world’s lousy with dirty old men – in literature, they represent some of the most well respected folks, American or otherwise. That’s not all bad, though, considering the fact that a lot of ‘em have gone on to make some good music if not penning novels detailing sexual exploits.

There’re countless blues standards about ‘sugar bowls,’ ‘pussy cat’s’ and the like. Of course, each of those tracks was devised in such a manner as to have some of the listening audience – and whoever was function as a censor at the time - fooled as to what was actually being discussed. It didn’t always work out. But regardless of who got fooled and how, the music wound up being pretty interesting as well as pretty surprising considering the time frame from whence it came.

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