THE NEW SHOW AT THE DUPLEX COMING APRIL 22nd.

Back in the good old days, freedom of speech went just so far and came at a cost. Censorship, especially in entertainment, was at its highest… even in private clubs. Blues singers had to seduce their audiences with clever lyrics, double entendres, and lots of food references to get around strict decency laws. Singer Rev. Mary and her Blue Crew unveil a steamy array of vintage bawdy blues paying homage to performers like Mae West, Sophie Tucker, Bessie Smith, Rosa Henderson, Ruth Brown, Stella Johnson … and Barrel House Annie, to name a few. You’ll be amazed at all the hidden meanings “grease my griddle,” “hot dog roll,” “mighty tight,” “arriving in low,” and “put some sugar in my bowl,” can have.

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$20 Ticket in Advance & a 2 Drink Minimum in the Cabaret Theatre*
$25 Ticket at the Door (plus service fee) & a 2 Drink Minimum in the Cabaret Theatre*Duplex show

Hire Granny’s Blue-Mers

 

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All of these songs are available for any venue. 

We have vocals, Ukulele, Guitar, Washboards, Spoons, Piano and Bass

Crazy ‘Bout My Lollypop

Get It Fixed

He May Be Your Dog but He’s Wearing My Collar

Me and My Chauffer Blues

Don’t You Feel My Leg

I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone

Organ Grinder Blues

Don’t Come Too Soon

Down In the Alley

Do Your Duty

Crazy Blues

Oh, Daddy

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Empty Bed Blues

My Daddy Rocks Me

Mighty Tight Woman

Press My Button Ring My Bell

My Handy Man

My Kitchen Man

Sam the Hot Dog Man

Need A Little Sugar in My Bowl

Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues

It Ain’t the Meat, It’s The Motion

A Guy What Takes His Time

Let’s Get Drunk and Truck

I’m Selling My Pork Chops (But I’m Giving My Gravy Away)

If You See My Rooster

Bumble Bee

T’ain’t nobody’s Business If I Do

My Man Stands Out

Send Me a Man

Daddy, You’ve Got Ev’rything

Second Hand man

Ain’t Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee

Wet It

King Size Papa

I’m Wild about That Thing

Press My Button, Ring My Bell

You Stole My Cherry

Take Your Hand off It

Telephone Man

Honey Dipper Blues

Kissing In the Dark

Anybody Here Want to Try My Cabbage

It’s Tight Like That

My Girl’s Pussy

I’ve got a Crush on the Fuller Brush Man

The Spinach Song

Send Me a Man

I’ve Got Ford Engine Movements in My Hips

Bed Spring Poker

Do Your Duty

Black Eye Blues

Second Hand Man

Back Door Man

 

 

Why Dirty or Hokum Blues?

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Why Hokum Blues?
Hokum…
Full Definition of hokum
1: a device used (as by showmen) to evoke a desired audience response
2: pretentious nonsense : bunkum

Because I love it. It is funny and dirty and rowdy and wild. It also comes from my grandmother’s generation and earlier! I find it fascinating the way I find burlesque and other types of entertainment from the 1910’s through the 1950’s and even up to the current day. People were not so willing to use words like sex, penis, vagina, intercourse and many other types of words we find almost clinical today. Of course they were also not going to go around saying things like: Pussy, tits, balls, cock and fucking either. OH sorry…pardon my French! They did use these words but never, well mostly never, in mixed company out in the streets or in any other public place. To use them was akin to doing them. Even Mae West who we now see as a comedienne that used double entendre to get a laugh was arrested and jailed for almost a year for producing a show whose name was simply, “Sex.”
We have come a long way into a sexual freedom and a way of expressing ourselves that is more free and easy. Sex itself is more openly discussed and is considered a normal function of the body one has every right to enjoy…to most anyway.
I love history and going into these songs was like a journey back in time to the mind, the mood the feeling of prohibition, the depression, WW! And WWII as well as the beginnings of Rock and even a little jaunt into the beginning of a more pornographic era beginning in the 1970’s.
I also love the Blues. I love the Blues Jazz and Rock like I love to breathe. I have studied and do sing many different genre of music but when I sing these, especially the blues either clean or dirty I feel plugged into something much bigger and more powerful than any other music I have sung. It is physical, this music, it is emotional and it is fun.
I also wanted to do it with older singers. I think having people of a certain age, especially women who are obviously knowledgeable about sex makes it all the more sexy, powerful and funny. I hope you love it all as much as we do.
I am so very happy to be presenting this piece and hope to get it out to many other venues. If you are interested in having us perform these songs and more (we have tons more) we would be very happy to talk to you. My e mail address is maryelizabethmicari@gmail.com