Last weekend I was cooking, and I prepared myself a CD of short, loud, punkish songs to keep me on my toes while I was titting around with filo pastry and assorted other accoutrements of middle class foody-ism.
In amongst the Buzzcocks, Ramones, Big Black and Husker Du, I included a tune by Big Joe Turner called 'Roll 'Em Pete', which is just a fantastic rockin' boogie woogie barrelhouse blues...belted out by Joe, accompanied by his trusty sidekick Pete Johnson on the old Joanna. It rocks like a bastard, and Big Joe clearly gets so carried away by the whole thing (and, one suspects, he may have had two or three gin and juices during the session), that he sort of loses himself half way through the track, and when Pete's belting piano section tails out, all he is capable of is growling 'yes yes, yes yes, I KNOW! Well... Alright then!' over and over again. Pure rock n roll...
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