Matchstick Johnny
"Let Me Tell You About My Baby" 
"Jungle Blues," "The Twist"
3-track 45
(Reeltone)

Matchstick Johnny's hysterical fits and writhings owe to possession by contemporary, underground one-man-band spirits. He's of the Bill Bloodshot/Gene Crazed/Hasil Adkins freneticism school. And at turns, his howling and glottal punctuations recall unleashed episodes of Charlie Feathers and Dexter Romweber.

Tom Von Hollywood contributes bold slap bass. Only 200 copies of this single were manufactured.

Early 20th Century Southern medicine show troubadour Harmonica Frank Floyd is sometimes cited by chroniclers of the American-manifestation of the one-man-band phenomenon. He did bring average people's folk songs to 1930s regional radio and, later, the Sun and Chess labels. 

But it can be traced to European old countries, where royal court musicians dressed in fanciful, colorful costumes, and played three-hole flutes with one hand while beating a drum with the other. 

Had any of them carried on in the outrageous Matchstick Johnny manner over which we today enthuse, the court sorcerer-doctor and his leeches might have been summoned.

Recommended: "Let Me Tell You About My Baby," "Jungle Blues," "The Twist"

Video: "Let Me Tell You About My Baby" (Teaser)
            Live in Fort Lauderdale, 2018

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