Sunday Chicken Dinner

What’s that you say? Pass the chicken? Well, okay. But bear in mind, there’s no way I can give you every piece of the bird, as I’m no doubt missing a gizzard here, a drumstick there. Still, you get a pretty decent poultry platter with the following tracks:

Rufus Thomas “Chicken Scratch”, Joe Tex “Chicken Crazy”, Fuitt Forst “Chicken Bop”, Link Wray “Run Chicken Run”, The Raunch Hands “Chicken Scratch”, Andre Williams “Greasy Chicken”, and the toughest piece of all: Don & Juan’s “Chicken Necks”.

Hasil Adkins knew poultry too. In fact Norton Records put together an entire LP of his chicken songs called Poultry in Motion.

Here chick, chick, chicken... Here chicken...

Ernie K Doe: M-O-N-E-Y without L-O-V-E ain't a T-H-I-N-G

Ernie K-Doe, self-proclaimed “Emperor of the Universe,” one-time proprietor of the fabled Mother-in-Law Lounge in New Orleans, and posthumous mayoral candidate, belting out an early Joe Tex number, “Sufferin’ So” b/w “Baby Since I Met You,” from 1963, on Joe Banashak’s Instant Records. Allen Toussaint most likely produced this one, a mid-tempo soul stirrer with a bonus spelling lesson included..."H-O-M-E without L-O-V-E it just ain't no U-S-E".


Speaking of K-Doe, would anyone out there happen to know if his old WWOZ broadcasts have been archived anywhere?

Photos of Ernie K-Doe performing, circa 1982, by Chris Ruhle.