{"id":154,"date":"2006-04-19T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2006-04-19T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T01:29:09","slug":"screamin-jay-hawkins-feast-of-the-mau-mau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/screamin-jay-hawkins-feast-of-the-mau-mau\/","title":{"rendered":"Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins &#8212; Feast of The Mau Mau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hawkinsscreaminjayfeast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-685\" title=\"Screamin\\' Jay Hawkins -- Feast of The Mau Mau\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hawkinsscreaminjayfeast.jpg\" alt=\"Screamin\\' Jay Hawkins -- Feast of The Mau Mau\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Feast of The Mau Mau<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1988<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1988 &#8211; Bought it for myself at our store RIP Records in Norfolk, VA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let me start by saying that &#8220;Feast of The Mau Mau&#8221; by Screamin Jay Hawkins gets a straight-up-stone-cold-solid 10! I&#8217;ve played this every day we were home for the last two months. Just ask my wife and kids. That&#8217;s the good news. The even better news is that it&#8217;s a double album. &#8220;Feast&#8221; is actually a re-release of two earlier albums, &#8220;What This Is&#8221; and &#8220;Because Is In Your Mind \/ Armpitrubber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how exciting this music is. For me, it&#8217;s the perfect mix of blues, R&amp;B, rock and roll, and weirdness. Occassionally he gets down right raunchy, so mind your audience. Most people know him for &#8220;I Put a Spell on You&#8221;, but there are many even better songs. Also, he&#8217;s so cool his music was featured in one Jarmusch film and he acted in another. Finally, Hawkins is a lyrical genius. Who else could rhyme with &#8220;righteous&#8221;?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Our Love Is Not For 3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You gave me a heartache<br \/>\nAAahh! a heartache<br \/>\nYou gave me a heartburn!<br \/>\nMy mind&#8217;s in neutral<br \/>\nWhaaa! I&#8217;m walking sideways<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t get righteous<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking upside down<br \/>\nAnd outta-sighteous<br \/>\nWhaaa! You gave me a heartache<br \/>\nHave Mercy&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screamin'_Jay_Hawkins\">More about Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins at Wikipedia<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1116345\">Great NPR story about Hawkins&#8217; alledged 70 plus children<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins Title: Feast of The Mau Mau Year: 1988 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1988 &#8211; Bought it for myself at our store RIP Records in Norfolk, VA. Keeper: Yes Let me start by saying that &#8220;Feast of The Mau Mau&#8221; by Screamin Jay Hawkins gets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,452,453],"tags":[512,585,46,936,957,1033],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-512","tag-blues","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-screamin-jay-hawkins","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}