July 7-13, 2005
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Blowfly
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Long after Rudy Ray "Dolemite" Moore and Redd Foxx pioneered blue "party records" — frankly sexual comedy LPs rife with nasty-ass lingo — in came Clarence Reid's "Blowfly" with his own balls-out humor. As resident producer for Florida soul label TK Records, Reid worked with Betty Wright and KC & the Sunshine Band, giving him not only entree to the swampiest players, but also access to the disco fad onto which he'd glom to create his drunked-up, live-in-studio, funny funky fuck fests (like 1965's "Rap Dirty"). Playing a masked superhero flanked by black women, naked, save for Afros, Blowfly rudely parodied classics ("What a Difference a Lay Makes") while fueling original grooves like "Girl Let Me Cum in Your Mouth, " and his magnum o-pus "That's What Your Pussy's Made For" with lyrics to make you harder than Chinese algebra. These days, somehow, he's a born-again Christian and still at it. Somehow.
Sat., July 9, 9 p.m. sharp, $8, Silk City Lounge, 501 Spring Garden St., 866-468-7619.
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