Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Answer to the Laundromat Blues, blues story-telling at its finest

I've been listening to the late Albert King for a while and he just never gets old. He was a pioneer of electric blues, string bending, and all around kick-ass lyrics. King almost always played with a horn section while he rocked alongside on his flying V electric guitar. He can always make me feel better when I'm feeling down with songs like, "I'll play the blues for you"

Some of his stuff is laugh out loud funny though, like "Answer to the Laundromat Blues". The song consists of King complaining about how some women take so long to wash their clothes at the laundromat and then they slip out the back, probably to mess around. Sounds like a pretty personal gripe. I don't have any experience with that problem but I'll bet it's annoying and King says men in the audience should solve it by buying all their women their own washers and dryers and putting them in the basement and that if they don't hurry up they should knock the door down. Then he says how he'll "whoop her" and if she's too fast to catch he'll "whoop her on the feet". Funny concept for a song. Don't send me hate mail telling me the song is misogynist because I won't reply. Just listen and enjoy some fine blues music. Here's a sample of the song, I couldn't find King's version on Youtube.

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