{"id":1026,"date":"2026-05-23T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:20:25","slug":"blues-naughty-sweetie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/blues-naughty-sweetie\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXkSfdU1Z-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is another song I picked up from the Greenbriar Boys&#8217; <em>Ragged But Right<\/em> album. As I&#8217;ve explained in previous posts, I&#8217;m not a huge bluegrass fan but loved that group. It was partly John Herald&#8217;s voice, and the way Ralph Rinzler and Bob Yellin played mandolin and banjo, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/greenbriar-boys.jpg?resize=255%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/greenbriar-boys.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/greenbriar-boys.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>and partly the terrifically varied repertoire, mixing bluegrass and old-time country with ragtime and old-time pop tunes &#8212; but mostly it was the energy and humor. They were terrific musicians, but also sounded like they were having a terrific time, and not worrying about getting everything perfect. The title summed it up, as well as being a great song that I later used as my regular opening number when I was playing bar gigs.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to that record over and over, and ended up knowing half the songs on it. (I&#8217;ve already posted versions of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/ragged-but-right\/\">Ragged But Right<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/roll-on-john\/\">Roll On, John<\/a>,&#8221; as well as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/katy-clyne\/\">Katy Clyne<\/a>,&#8221; which I learned off the Greenbriars&#8217; first recording.) As an inveterate show-off, I was particularly attracted to this one by its fast comic patter section, which the Greenbriars pulled off with fine diction and verve, and with the addition of a kazoo solo I made it a feature of my two-song set at a high school talent show (along with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/san-francisco-bay\/\">San Francisco Bay Blues<\/a>,&#8221; which I played with kazoo and harmonica). It was the first time I got onstage and performed anything resembling the kind of music I would end up playing professionally, and I was at least a moderate hit &#8212; the fast patter and kazoo solos in particular.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6100 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blues-My-Naughty-Sweetie-e1779391992810.jpg?resize=213%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"293\" \/>This song was composed in 1919, just before blues began being marketed on recordings by Black singers, and although a lot of historians date the heyday of the style from 1920, in terms of mainstream show business &#8220;blues&#8221; was already regarded as somewhat pass\u00e9, mocked in songs like &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s Talking &#8216;Bout the Doggone Blues, But I&#8217;m Happy.&#8221; This comic novelty was instantly recorded by a couple of white vaudevillians and continued to be recorded by lots of other folks over the years, including an instrumental version by Sidney Bechet in 1951 and a version by the Kweskin Jug Band in the 1960s. I also just ran across a video of John Denver singing it while doing some of the lamest dancing ever, and playing the break on kazoo, which I&#8217;m assuming means he got it from the Kweskin bunch. I only heard their version later, and they don&#8217;t go for tongue-twisting speed on the patter chorus, which, for me, is the whole point (which is not to say I necessarily pull it off).<\/p>\n<p>In any case&#8230; when I stopped playing kazoo &#8212; no doubt a relief to everyone &#8212; I dropped this from my repertoire because I no longer had an instrumental break for it. Then, when when my wife Sandrine and I began playing together, her clarinet solved that problem and I welcomed it back with open arms&#8230; and then, since she won&#8217;t do videos, I had to work out a guitar break. However one does it, it&#8217;s a remarkably silly song and what more need be said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another song I picked up from the Greenbriar Boys&#8217; Ragged But Right album. As I&#8217;ve explained in previous posts, I&#8217;m not a huge bluegrass fan but loved that group. It was partly John Herald&#8217;s voice, and the way Ralph Rinzler and Bob Yellin played mandolin and banjo, and partly the terrifically varied repertoire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/blues-naughty-sweetie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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