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Anni Piper: Men Are Like Potato Chips

Read "Men Are Like Potato Chips" reviewed by Ron Kalb

by Ron Kalb
August 23, 2026

Anni Piper's June 2026 release Men Are Like Potato Chips, on Sugar Daddy Records, carries a camp, risqué swagger and a sultry persona that may initially register as pure provocation. Yet, as author-activist Angela Davis noted in her study of early blues women, sexual candor has long served as a means for performers to assert narrative control and define their own musical agency. Sophie Tucker's Red Hot Mama act offers a parallel lineage in which bawdy humor ...

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Tim "Too Slim" Langford: A Journey Through American Music

by David King
April 1, 2009

Listening to Too Slim and The Taildraggers is, as one reviewer put it, .".. like taking a journey through the history of American music." Absorbing everything he could at first, Tim “Too Slim" Langford, lead guitarist and vocalist for the group, today plays what he likes. Although his focus at first may have been blues, today what Langford likes may encompass everything from down home blues, to funky blues rock, Americana, southern swamp rock and instrumental guitar styles. ...