Bawdy Western Songs has more crude language than some of Oscar Brand's other albums of bawdy songs, although none of the most notorious four-letter words appear. Listeners are treated to story-songs such as "Blinded by Turds" and "Charlotte the Harlot" that seem more quaint than risqué when viewed from the vantage point of today's unrestrained shock humor. Unlike Brand's albums that at least pretended to draw upon the oral tradition for material, Bawdy Western Songs features his own ribald rewrites of otherwise innocuous ...
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Bawdy Western Songs has more crude language than some of Oscar Brand's other albums of bawdy songs, although none of the most notorious four-letter words appear. Listeners are treated to story-songs such as "Blinded by Turds" and "Charlotte the Harlot" that seem more quaint than risqué when viewed from the vantage point of today's unrestrained shock humor. Unlike Brand's albums that at least pretended to draw upon the oral tradition for material, Bawdy Western Songs features his own ribald rewrites of otherwise innocuous and well-known western classics including "I Ride an Old Paint" and "The Old Chisholm Trail." The highfalutin liner notes make dubious claims such as that Brand's "mastery of improvisation is amply demonstrated by the way in which he substitutes off-color words for those that are commonplace." In reality, his bawdy songs albums are party records -- the folk world's answer to Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts and the dirty blues -- and are no more "authentic" than rap act 2 Live Crew or other, later artists who specialized in blue humor. Strangely, Bawdy Western Songs repeats the song "Ride On" from the album Bawdy Songs Goes to College, which Brand also recorded in 1957. ~ Greg Adams, Rovi
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