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Detail from the cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos.
Pages in category "Hokum blues songs" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Dirty blues; Hokum; B.
In 2014, the Blues Hall of Fame inducted "It's Tight Like That" as a 'Classic of Blues Recording – Single or Album Track'. [8] In an induction statement, the song is described as " a playful vocal duet to rework a hot street slang phrase, [it is] a prime example of the good-time music known as hokum".
"The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas" or "The Duck's Yas Yas Yas" is a hokum jazz-blues song, originally recorded by James "Stump" Johnson, but the most well known version was recorded by Oliver Cobb and his Rhythm Kings. The song is perhaps best known for the lyrics:
"Crosscut Saw", or "Cross Cut Saw Blues" as it was first called, is a hokum-style song "that must have belonged to the general repertoire of the Delta blues". [1] Mississippi bluesman Tommy McClennan 's recording of the song was released in 1941 and has since been interpreted by many blues artists.
Hokum blues celebrated both comedic lyrical content and a boisterous, farcical performance style. [21] Tampa Red and Georgia Tom's "It's Tight Like That" (1928) [22] is a sly wordplay with the double meaning of being "tight" with someone, coupled with a more salacious physical familiarity.
Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903 [1] – March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.. His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. [2]
"I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?" is a ragtime/blues song written by Shelton Brooks in 1913. Sometimes categorized as hokum, [1] it led to an answer song written in 1915 by W.C. Handy, "Yellow Dog Rag", later titled "Yellow Dog Blues". Lines and melody from both songs show up in the 1920s and 1930s in such songs as "E. Z. Rider", "See See ...