Al Duvall with The Freaks

The Flop Sessions   

(Flop Records)

Al recorded as "Tough Ted Titmaus" in the early 1980s. The later Flop Sessions is all but invisible online, though, and these tracks' birth year is indeterminate. But whatever their vintage, they portray him cannily wedding wise-cracks to pre-war percolating, and cleverness is evergreen. The old-fangled ditties are of roll-back-the-rug disposition. Playfulness facilitates japery: "Buck Up," the wag advises, even "When you're soaked in gasoline, and you run into an old flame." 

Recommended: "Buck Up," "The Killer Inside," "Miner Blues"

Video: live in 2010 (2:33)

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