Bongo Joe Mississippi Records OOP Folkways
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May 5, 2014 Sold Date
Apr 28, 2014 Start Date
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Check out my other auctions Ill combine shipping! This record & Cover are in perfect condition! MR-022 - Bongo Joe (LP), by George Coleman. Released 2008. Originally released by and licensed from Arhoolie Records. Reissue of 1969 Arhoolie LP 1040 (see alsoArhoolie CD/Cassette 1040). Mastered for MR by Tim Stollenwerk. Features percussionist Coleman on oil drum with vocals; produced and recorded on December 7, 1968, by Chris Strachwitz in San Antonio, TX, on portable equipment. Cover photo by Chris Strachwitz; cover design by Wayne Pope. "Coleman's drum is a 55 gallon oil drum shaped with a hand ax.... His drum sticks are made from hammer handles, the bases of hand oil cans filled with pebble and B-B shot to provide a rattle...." (from the liner notes). "Bongo Joe is perhaps the world's only virtuoso player of the empty oil drum, a man so ingenious that he could even turn petroleum refuse into something musical and sublime. [...] Bongo Joe drums on his oil cans with a thunderous, tympani-like effect, while discoursing rambling, insightful and humorous lyrics that are often times more stories than songs. As Joe himself put it, 'I rap but not that bullshit they're putting down now. I play fundamental beat music.' Whether draping his drums with an American flag or washing them in swirls of psychedelic green and red paint, there's something beyond the typical street-corner busker in Bongo Joe's persona, unbridled quality that isn't just musical, but draws on a tradition of pure entertainment. One of the true treasures of the Arhoolie catalog for many years. Try 'Innocent Little Doggie' (if you think Joe was just a novelty act, listen closely to the poignant insightfulness of the lyrics), 'Transistor Radio' (more wry commentary) and 'Dog Eat Dog.' One of our favorites, available on vinyl for the first time in 39 years."

Side A
1. I Wish I Could Sing 
2. Innocent Little Doggy 
3. Cool It
Side B 
1. Listen At That Bull 
2. Transistor Radio 
3. Eloise 
4. Dog Eat Dog 



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