SHAVE ME DRY by Lucille Bogan (aka Bessie Jackson) - ADULTS ONLY! скачать видео бесплатно

Along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, Lucile Bogan is considered one of the three "mothers" of the early Blues. "Shave Me Dry" (aka "Shave 'Em Dry") was her final recording, and one of her most notoriously ribald (another one being "Till The Cows Come Home", which you can listen to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heYxa6yX2os). Bogan recorded two versions of "Shave Me Dry", one of which was a decidedly tamer version recorded under the pseudonym, "Bessie Jackson", and the other being this one, which is how one would have heard her perform it live. As shown at the top of the video, this version was released uncredited on a plain "vanilla" label. It is unknown (by me, anyway) whether or not this release was a bootleg for which Bogan received no compensation, or if she had a hand in this, intentionally giving it an "underground" release as a way of avoiding possible issues with over-reaching local law enforcement, moral societies and/or her official record company at the time (Banner), who would not have likely have been bold enough to release this themselves, nor would they have been very likely to allow her to release the record on a competing label. Then again, I suppose it's possible Bogan and Banner together decided to release this on a plain "vanilla" label so that both would avoid issues with the law and/or other guardians of our morals.

From wiki:

Bogan first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens. Later that year she recorded "Pawn Shop Blues" in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the first time a black blues singer had been recorded outside New York or Chicago]. In 1927 she began recording for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin, where she recorded her first big success, "Sweet Petunia", which was covered by Blind Blake. She also recorded for Brunswick Records, backed by Tampa Red and Cow Cow Davenport.

By 1930 her recordings had begun to concentrate on drinking and sex, with songs such as "Sloppy Drunk Blues" (covered by Leroy Carr and others) and "Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More" (later recorded by Memphis Minnie). She also recorded the original version of "Black Angel Blues", which (as "Sweet Little Angel") was covered by B.B. King and many others. Trained in the rowdier juke joints of the 1920s, many of Bogan's songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinly-veiled humorous sexual references. The theme of prostitution, in particular, featured prominently in several of her recordings.

In 1933 she returned to New York, and, apparently to conceal her identity, began recording as Bessie Jackson for the Banner (ARC) label. She was usually accompanied on piano by Walter Roland, with whom she recorded over 100 songs between 1933 and 1935, including some of her biggest commercial successes including "Seaboard Blues", "Troubled Mind", and "Superstitious Blues".

Her other songs included "Stew Meat Blues", "Coffee Grindin' Blues", "My Georgia Grind", "Honeycomb Man", "Mr. Screw Worm In Trouble", and "Bo Hog Blues". Her final recordings with Roland and Josh White included two takes of "Shave 'Em Dry", recorded in New York on Tuesday March 5, 1935. The unexpurgated alternate take is notorious for its explicit sexual references, a unique record of the lyrics sung in after-hours adult clubs. Another of her songs, "B.D. Woman's Blues", takes the position of a "bull dyke" ("B.D."), with the line "Comin' a time, B.D. women, they ain't gonna need no men" "They got a head like a sweet angel and they walk just like a natural man." "They can lay their jive just like a natural man."

She appears not to have recorded after 1935.