Lonnie Johnson

Number one on the play list for Sunday's Round Bend Hour, I plan to play selections from the Complete Folkways Recordings of Lonnie Johnson, whose writing often transcended the usual cliched emotions of blues lyrics. Here he flirts with misogyny.

Men, if you single, pray to God you stay that way
Men, if you single, pray to God you stay that way
'Cause women don't want a good man, only
To pass the time away.

And,

You can give a woman plenty diamonds
you can dress her from her head on down
You can give a woman plenty diamonds,
You can dress her from her head on down
She tell everybody she got a fool,
It's the talk of the town.

I'd call it honesty, rather than misogyny. Just an opinion.

See and listen here.


TS