Toil and Trouble
Blindfold Test #33
Refresher, since it’s been a while: In these blindfold tests I try to make sense out of 25 identity-concealed songs from a randomly shuffled playlist of around (now) 2900, seeded with any music that sounds like it might interest me in some way or another.
I’m now a third of the way toward 100 of these (almost), but they’ve slowed down considerably so don’t get your hopes up. In this one: An embarrassing mis-hearing of a rocking early ‘60s r&b singer as somebody merely pretending to be one; juxtaposed vocal genders in back-to-back Bitch and Micronotz songs; two mysterious acts whose names start with “African” but whose pictures seem to be nowhere on the Internet; an ‘80s-identified “Griot” jazz band from Detroit who for decades I conflated with Mandingo Griot Society from Chicago; and a suggestion that Hank Williams Jr. and Johnny “Guitar” Watson might have had more in common than previously thought.
