Bman's Blues Report

Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973) was born Rufus Perryman in Monroe, Louisiana. He was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer, most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", with exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African American folklore. "I want all you women to fall in line" "And shake yo shimmy like i'm shakin' mine" "You shake yo shimmy and you shake it fast" "If you can't shake the shimmy, shake yo' yes yes yes" "You a dirty mistreater, a robber and a cheater" "Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin" "And yo mama do the lawdylawd" Although the lyrics were sung rather than spoken, with its elaborate word play and earthy subject matter, "The Dirty Dozens" is considered in some respects an ancestor to rap music. Speckled Red was the older brother of Piano Red...

Speckled Red (October 23, 1892 - January 2, 1973)[ was born Rufus Perryman in Monroe, Louisiana. He was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer, most noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", with exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African American folklore. "I want all you women to fall in line" "And shake yo shimmy like i'm shakin' mine" "You shake yo shimmy and you shake it fast" "If you can't shake the shimmy, shake yo' yes yes yes" "You a dirty mistreater, a robber and a cheater" "Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin" "And yo mama do the lawdylawd" Although the lyrics were sung rather than spoken, with its elaborate word play and earthy subject matter, "The Dirty Dozens" is considered in some respects an ancestor to rap music. Speckled Red was the older brother of Piano Re...

Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician, who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. The band here is Mc Coy on guitar, Sonny Boy Williamson on Harmonica and Speckled Red on Piano. Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band. A particular influence during this period was Houston Stackhouse, from whom he learnt to play slide guitar, and with whom he appeared on the radio in Jackson, Mississippi. After further travels through Mississippi, he found it advisable to take his mother's name, and as Robert Lee McCoy moved to St. Louis, Missouri in the mid 1930s Like my Facebook Page, Post your video on my Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! Share your favorite posting an...