Ancestors

Written by Eira Tansey on 2025-01-21 at 16:04

It's always a good time to cue up Jelly Roll Morton's iconic, nasty, and wildly horny song The Dirty Dozen, but especially lately since I'm so tired of America's neo-Puritans and neo-Prohibitionists. https://youtu.be/aRSMaKJySlY?feature=shared

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Written by Eira Tansey on 2025-01-21 at 16:05

Now I'm obsessed with knowing whether it was the WPA that helped get this song preserved (peep the WPA stamp on the lower right of Alan Lomax's catalog record) https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.5949/

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Toot

Written by Eira Tansey on 2025-01-21 at 16:08

I'm so grateful for so many reasons that I got to live and work in New Orleans for several years, but one of them was really internalizing and learning the history that America has always been a funky, weird, and horny place and that any attempts to paint it otherwise are totally ahistorical at best, and often motivated by some really sinister politics at worst.

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Descendants

Written by Eira Tansey on 2025-01-21 at 16:12

Anyway, there's so much terrific old pervy ragtime, blues, and jazz music out there. A friend of mine used to have a compilation CD we'd play at her parties in New Orleans with these bawdy tunes. I don't remember the album title, but this playlist has really similar energy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6BZdtFDzuuUb6pkNuf40zi?si=eda920f39f904c21

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