![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Swing as he was being dubbed for some inexplicable reason on Beer Bottle Boogie – seems to have firsthand knowledge of this scenario. With the boogie of the title emphasized with a heavy handed piano from the opening bell, this is the kind of record that isn’t trying for much creatively, but instead relying on the familiar to sell it to a receptive audience.Įverything from the rhythm track to the subject matter is right up the alley of rock fans in 1950 and Rufus Thomas – or Mr. ![]() This wasn’t one of those times, but already he was showing signs that he was destined for bigger things. Possibly the only enduring rock star who had a full time job outside of music for much of his career, two of them in fact, Thomas downplayed his musical abilities but he was blessed with unerring rhythmic sense, a flair for performing dating back to his work on stage and as a radio disc jockey and the drive and perseverance to keep at it until finally breaking through… more than once. If life is a series of stops and starts nobody in rock history embodied that truism more than Rufus Thomas Jr. ![]()
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