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Tuesday, July 29,2008
Black country
singers? It sounds as oxymoronic to some ears as Mexican polka, but then much
Mexican music was influenced by polka and north of the Rio Grande, the cultural
lines between black and white, blues and country, were often fluid. The pair of
Dirty Laundry compilations is among
the most enjoyable anthologies released this year. Consisting mostly of obscure
recordings from the 1960s and ’70s by artists famous (Ike & Tina Turner,
James Brown) and lesser known, the Dirty
Laundry sets feature African-American singers covering country songs with
lots of soul and sometimes a touch of scrappy funk. Some songs are familiar
(“King of the Road,” “Tennessee
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