Just Something My Uncle Told Me Blaggardy Folk LP Oddball Glenn Ohrlin X Rated

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This is a great LP of various artist Just Something My Uncle Told Me: Blaggardy Folk Songs from the Southern United States.

The LP is in VG++ condition. The cover is VG++.

This is on Rounder Records 0141

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Side 1

1. The Ring Dang Do -- Glenn Ohrlin

2. I Fucked an Old Girl in the Graveyard / Here's to Old Meg -- Julius Sorel

3. One-eyed Riley -- Jim Garland

4. The Eagle -- George Bernard

5. The Wild Buekaroo -- Glenn Ohrlin

6. The Piece of Wang -- Buford Pippin

7. The Tattooed Lady -- Smokey Rogers

8. Barnacle Bill the Sailor -- Glenn Ohrlin

9. Last May Morn -- Wash Nelson

10.  The Little Ball of Yarn -- Glenn Ohrlin

Side II

1.Crawling and Creeping -- Jim Garland

2.  The Open Book-Glenn Ohrlin

3. The Winnipeg Whore -- Julius Sorel

4. Granny Hare / Little Girl from Arkansas / Ryestraw / She Went Around the Huckleberry Bush / Blackeyed Susie -- Jim Garland

5. The Castration of the Strawberry Roan-Glenn Ohrlin

6. The Hermit of Shark Tooth Shoal -- Julius Sorel

7. Blue Balls from Bellman / Fucking Does the Women Good -- Buford Pippin

8. Uncle Bud-George Bernard

9. Lost the Race by Jesus / My Organ Grinder / Here's to the Whore / In Mexico -- Julius Sorel

10. Old Granny Cripplecunt / God Damn Her Old Soul / I Sent a Rabbit for a Bucket of Beer / A Conversation between President Buchanan and Queen Victoria -- Jim Garland

11. The Great Wheel -- Glenn Ohrlin

 Although one may hear a good deal of "blaggardy" material in the field, it is difficult to bring it to disc and we are deeply grateful to the artists for recording the material found here, much of which is at odds with their present moral tenets.

The late Jim Garland was originally from Bell County, Kentucky where he was blacklisted for union activities. He spent the 'thirties in New York City where he engaged in folksong activity with his sisters Sarah Gunning and Molly Jackson. During the war he moved to Washougal, Washington. Jim had a great fund of unusual folklore, and composed the popular I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister and Death of Harry Simms from personal experience. He wrote a fascinating autobiography which will be published by the University of Kentucky Press.

Buford Pippin was an elderly retired miner from Delight, Kentucky and a good singer of old ballads. Wash Nelson was in his nineties and from the Ashland area. Both have passed away since these recordings were made.

Julius Sorel is a rancher in his fifties from Leupp, Arizona and a great storehouse of laconic cowboy wit. Glenn Ohrlin,, originally from Minnesota, now runs his cattle in Mountain View, Arkansas. Author of The Hellhound Train and several lp records, Glenn is a frequent performer at folkfestivals. Smokey Rodgers has enjoyed a long career in country music, having worked as a vocalist for Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and many bands of his own. He now lives on a ranch in Victorville, California.

George Bernard from Washington, Texas is in his late sixties and now a Holiness preacher. Hearing Sam Chatmon (cf. Rounder 2018) perform some of his rowdy pieces at the San Diego Folk Festival induced George to come into Lou Curtiss' record store and announce "OK, I'm going to put all this stuff down for you so you'll have it and then I'm never going to mess with it no more". And he hasn't.

Blaggardy songs" Jim Garland called these celebrations of errant character. His term is an Appalachian derivative of "blackguard" and the population of these songs largely embraces personalities of impossibly mean disposition. Much found on this album is described from a first- person vantage; it seems that the joy of their performance lies in the temporary adoption of a mask of outrageous countenance. Therefore although outre sexual behavior is the order of the day here, this lp is fashioned less as a collection of the bawdy than of the iconoclastic. However, although some are only sweetly naughty, concerned parents and radio broadcasters will probably prefer to avoid its flagitious core, for nothing here has been censored.

It has long been realized that ribald materials form a substantial underpinning for more recognized balladry, but, until recently, these materials were not available for study except in the field. In particular, reliable phonograph recordings of traditional sources are quite scarce. About twenty years ago, Mack McCormick issued a similarly intentioned Unexpurgated Songs of Men (sic) and good material, more often black than white, can be found on an occasional "party" record. The present album is an attempt to document a range of authentic materials, all performed by traditional singers. Admittedly "traditional" is a nebulous term to employ in this context, for urban folksong enthusiasts will typically have learned their lewd songs, if no others, through certifiable "folk processes". But no collegiate performances are heard here; the songs are all drawn from the country, even if they thrive in urban climes as well. This collection is only a small start for there is much more to sample. In particular, I regret that no performances of the large corpus of bawdy songs known to Southern women could be arranged for this lp, for some of the chill of male domination could have been removed thereby. However we could not induce any informant to relax her moral scruples sufficiently for a recording
 

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