Copulatin' Blues

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mojo Records
• ASIN: B000001LYI
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,637 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Preachin' Blues

2. Stavin' Chain (That Rockin' Swing #1)

3. New Rubbin' on That Darn Old Thing

4. The Candy Man

5. Take You Hands Off My Mojo

6. Don't You Make Me High

7. Wet It!

8. Press My Button, Ring My Bell

9. You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark

10. Get Off With Me

11. How Do They Do It That Way?

12. If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It (Before I Give It Away)

13. Yas! Yas! Yas!

14. My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll

15. Stavin' Chain (#2)

16. Please Warm My Weiner

17. You Stole My Cherry

18. Sissy Man Blues

19. You Can't Sleep in My Bed

20. Winin' Boy Blues

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For the last century and more, the only place in a black American's world safe from the bossman's grasp has been the bedroom. A sense of this freedom in all its audacious raunch and hilarity fairly leaps from this brilliant anthology of bawdy blues recordings from the late 1920s through the 1930s. There are many raw delights to savor, such as Sidney Bechet's thrilling clarinet on "Preachin' Blues"; Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band with horny little Frankie Jaxon vamping his lead vocals on "My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll"; "Don't You Make Me High" by Merline Johnson, the Yas-Yas Girl; and "Get Off with Me" by Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson. The most outrageous gem in the trove is "Winin' Boy" by Jelly Roll Morton, who, in black tie and tails, performed this vulgar masterpiece before unsuspecting governmental dignitaries in the Library of Congress just before World War II. --Alan Greenberg

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey there all you Hound Dawgs and Houndettes!, November 16, 2003

By 

Bastet "mahobastet" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Copulatin' Blues (Audio CD)

Get your mojo working with this CD from Mojo Records. "The Copulatin' Blues" is bound to put some of ya'll in heat.

This CD contains tracks spanning from 1929-1947. I've only heard of one of the songs before, but there are legendary artists like Jelly Roll Morton, Alberta Hunter, and Sidney Bechet & his New Orchestra.

While the recording quality isn't as good as on "Risqué Rhythms: Nasty 50's R& B", I think it would loose its charm if it was. These songs are rough and gritty. The recording studio did not (or could not) over produce the rawness out of the music so the edges are sharp. These are "race records" being saved from complete obscurity.

The songs offer varying degrees of subtlety from the play-on-words in the song "Yas! Yas! Yas!" by Jimmy Strange, the Yas Yas Yas Man to the explicit version of "Shave `Em Dry" by Lucille Bogan and the downright X-rated "Winin' Boy" by Mr. Jelly Roll Morton.

"Sissy Man Blues" records the lamentations of a man so hard up for sex, he'll take on a sissy man. And you have to be kin to Hard-Hearted Hannah to pass up Bo Carter's plea in "Please Warm My Weiner." He sounds so pitiful you just want to throw him a bun-or two.

One of my favorite tracks is "New Rubbin' On That Darn Old Thing" by Oscar's Chicago Swingers. It's not as edgy as the other songs, but it gets you be-boppin' to the beat. "Get Off With Me" by Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson wins points not only for being evocative, but for Coot's charming, beguiling voice. She may sound like an innocent girl, but the sailors know better.

Alberta Hunter's "You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark" is the one tune I have heard before. This CD has the original 1935 release and Hunter's torch performance makes me think of Marlene Dietrich. But my first encounter with this song was on "The Glory of Alberta Hunter" album recorded in 1982 a few years before her death when her voice is older and more mature. Lesbian or not, at the time Hunter sounds like a grandmother who knows that there may be snow on the roof but grandpa still keeps the home fires burning. Frankly, I prefer this later version rather than the original on this CD.

Overall there is inconsistency in the CD because of the range of years it covers. You can hear the changes in recording quality and even songwriting ability. "Risqué Rhythms" is a more cohesive compilation because its scope is better defined. But the purpose of this copulatin' blues CD is aptly presented.

Anyway, as a whole "The Copulatin' Blues" is a good investment.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Blue, November 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Copulatin' Blues (Audio CD)

A must have for Blues lovers. All the rawness of old blues, celebrating sex or the lack of it, with humor, passion and the sincerity of the true blues singer. Fine audio quality with all the cracks and pops preserverd far behind the vocals. Everything you'd expect from a great label.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Old Blues Album, October 20, 2001

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Peter Atwood (Leverett, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Copulatin' Blues (Audio CD)

This is really great material. The lyrics and music are fantastic and really transport you to another time and place. I highly recommend this and related albums including "Reefer Songs" which was also reprinted on this label and anything on the Jass or Stash labels if you can find them.