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Double Wide is the debut studio album by American recording artist Uncle Kracker. It was released on May 30, 2000, via Lava/Atlantic Records. The recording sessions took place on the back of a tour bus parked in various motels and arena parking lots across the country. The production was mostly handled by Kid Rock with Michael Bradford.
The record featured a dozen songs with lyrics by Snider and music by the entire band, plus a cover of Guy Clark’s "The High Price of Inspiration." [88] American Songwriter gave the record four stars out of five. [89] On August 4, 2017, Melvin Records released a live double album by Hard Working Americans, We’re All In This Together. [90]
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
Broonzy, who was one of the most popular pre-World War II blues artists, used elements of hokum in his music. [1] In "Too Many Drivers", he makes use of double entendre [2] and "further extended the 'female as automobile' metaphor so prevalent in blues lyrics" at the time, according to compilation annotator Keith Briggs. [3]
Record of the band that plays the blues [26] In The History of Rock & Roll, Ed Ward called the song "a masterpiece of double entendre and timing". [27] Although the song's lyrics are written in the form of an "extended sexual metaphor", they have been cited as part of a trend toward more "open sexuality" in rhythm and blues music of the early ...
The record was a million seller (an extraordinary achievement at that time), and went on to become a big blues hit, covered by a wide variety of blues, jazz, and country artists over the years. [1] Eventually the record sold more than seven million copies. [12] The B-side of the disc was recorded on October 16, 1928. It was "Grievin' Me Blues ...
"Double Trouble" is a slow tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 4/4 time in the key of D minor. [4] According to biographer Don Snowden, "The song's underlying air of quiet desperation stretched to the breaking point is enhanced by brilliant use of dynamics and some truly mind-boggling, strangled guitar fills near the end."
"Big Long Slidin' Thing" is a 1954 rhythm and blues song written by Leroy Kirkland and Mamie Thomas, sung by Dinah Washington, and arranged by Quincy Jones. It has been covered by a number of different artists, and has been rated as one of the best double entendre songs of all time.