I caught the Big Mo Pod Show last night and listened to the podcast this afternoon. That’s later than I usually do because we were running around today learning how to use our new smartphones. You know, the makers don’t send the phones with even basic instructions. I guess they just expect you to guess right.
It’s like passing the torch (the title of the pod show) with the burning end towards your face. The phones are really slippery because they wash them with triple muddifying brahma bull body wash and add a 3-inch charging cable.
Anyway, I think the passing the torch title really comes from the Morganfield family. One of Muddy Water’s sons named Mud did a number called “She’s Getting her Groove On.” Mckinley is another son of Muddy and he’s also a blues musician.
Big Mo called one of the numbers on the blues show last night a novelty song: “Willie Dixon’s Gone,” by Tom Hambridge. Producer Noah asked him point blank, “What makes a song a novelty song?” to which Big Mo replies, “Ohhh, that is so hard!” He named a few like “Alley Oop.” And in general, his answer was that novelty songs are “overdone” and “over-shticked.” So, the novelty songs are comical.
But for comical, I don’t think you can beat one of my favorite songs that Big Mo played last night but didn’t make today’s list: “Can’t Even Do Wrong Right,” by Elvin Bishop. He grew up on a farm in Iowa. He even did a song titled “Calling All Cows.” I’ll let you look that one up.
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