Shimmy She Wobble

Stuff for your turkey. Beatles meets Shins meets Pylon meets Black Sabbath. Plus 3 blues songs to ponder while gorging yourself.

Big Walter Horton playing with Johnny Shines and Honeyboy Edwards:

2009 Thanksgiving playlist - White Meat or Dark.zip (complete mix – 97MB)

1. intro
2. little eva – let’s turkey trot.mp3 : best thanksgiving song ever
3. beatles – savoy truffle : never made sense to me before. it works here
4. shins – young pilgrim.mp3
5. big walter “shakey” horton & jimmy deberry – goin’ up on a harvest.mp3 : incredible harmonica from shakey horton. known as “mumbles” and “shakey” because of his head motion while playing the harmonica (wikipedia.)
6. ray davies – thanksgiving day.mp3 : 2nd best thanksgiving song ever
7. apples in stereo – thank you very much
8. john lennon – cold turkey
9. woody guthrie – this land is your land : favorite song in elementary
10. ramones – pinhead : qualifies because of the gobbling
11. schoolhouse rock – no more kings
12. t-model ford – turkey and the rabbit.mp3 : stayed in the same motel (two rooms down) as this guy in oxford, mississippi.
13. bob dylan – bob dylan’s 115th dream
14. interlude
15. pylon – feast on my heart : from Athens, GA. big influence on REM
16. steeleye span – marigold/harvest home
17. hoodoo gurus – turkey dinner : rare b-side
18. neil young – harvest
19. johnny shines – mean black gobbler.mp3 : traveled with Robert Johnson from 1935-37.
20. beach boys – roll plymouth rock : from unreleased smile album. purplechick version
21. black sabbath – cornucopia.mp3 : who knew Sabbath had a turkey song . . .
22. cowsills – indian lake
23. postscript

Johnny Shines:

Little Eva: