Mean Street means great music that is razor sharp and cuts through to
the soul. Featuring James Cotton, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
Features the great songs of these artists which reflected the hard
times, prison time, survival and expression of the mean side of the
blues, songs such as Howlin Wolf’s, "Before I Commit" a Crime", and "Killing
Floor" are featured.
Times can be hard, attitudes can get
downright mean. An old man I used to know said there is a reason the
word time is sometimes called mean time, such as in the term “mean time” or
hard time, such as hard times, or a prisoner would use doing “hard
time” . Though in the mean time was actually from the meaning of
Greenwich Meantime, the blues players refer to "in the mean time", as a
period of time that was mean as hell, whether getting over a woman, the
anxiety of waiting on a court disposition, or worried about how he was
going to feed his family. Stress from economic shortages, recession,
oppression, discrimination and loves gone bad, hearts broken, jealous
lovers, is enough to make the good men downright mean.
Protections come
down to straight razors and a 32 pistols (called “Saturday night
Specials” ).
But, there was a remedy for all of these pressures. These were Friday
and Saturday nights, the weeks troubles were washed from the mind. Juke
joints were medicine for the soul, hot beds of emotions were released
amidst laughter, dance, great food and a good time yes; there were the cuttings,
shootings, fights which occasionally happened, but there was the music
to calm it all down, then the jukin’ would begin. All issues were
settled and all troubles forgotten. Ease of mind was found in the music,
fish fries, ribs, dance, laughter and styling.
The juke joints had a
way of taming the Mean Streets, putting everybody in mood to boogie !! The juke joint was the leveling field, where good times and great music rule ! So get ready to boogie with Mean Street. So lets Rock with the "Cat". Catbone is proud to offer this great album to you. We offer a value add surprise bonus to you on this purchase.
