Old Fashioned Blues
Written: 1970
Writers: David Jenneson, Alan Hovden
Status: Unrecorded and unpublished.
Genre and Style: Burner Jug Pop
Comments: Dave: Old Fashioned Blues was a tribute to the Burner’s jug rock roots. It came out of whole cloth. Most songs written early in the Burner’s career were eventually dumped, but Old Fashioned Blues, dedicated to the jug bands, juke joints and road houses of the 1930’s, held on to its place on the song list until the very end. It has a big chorus with a soulful verse yearning for the old days, yet is a fast, country funk dance song.
Comments: Al: Throw your hat up the air and hit the dance floor!
Don’t try and hide it
If you really like it
It will get you every time
No matter where you try and hide
Now it’s a little bit like country
And a little bit like jazz
You know I used to think I had a good thing going
Until I saw no one was pulling off the old pizzazz
Of a genuine jug band
Old fashioned
Old fashioned
Old fashioned blues
It was 1930
And the hall was kind of dirty
Not having been cleaned
From the night before
I got a ride in with Bill Evans
We never made it till eleven
You could hear them sweating, you could hear them shout
The kazoo was screaming as the crowd rocked in the razz
Of a genuine jug band
Old fashioned
Old fashioned
Old fashioned blues
I’ve got lead in my belly
And a pistol in my hand
Join the hue and cry now
God bless the one night stand!
Now if there’s something wrong inside you
And you feel you’ve got to hide
Why don’t you take advantage of a sure fire deal?
Why don’t you come inside and feel the sin and smoke and jazz?
Of a genuine jug band
Old fashioned
Old fashioned
Old fashioned blues
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