Official Music, King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar, Paramount Records, 1970

I bought this used in 2010 because in 1975 I knew a guy who loved King Biscuit Boy. As he heard about King Biscuit Time and King Biscuit Flower Hour, he trimmed the facts to fit with what he knew about King Biscuit Boy. This record isn’t much good if you’ve heard Sonny Boy Williamson, say. However, as I wrote this review, I found that the record is adjacent to some great stuff. For example, Crowbar was Ronnie Hawkins’s band in the late 1960s. One day he fired them all (saying those boys could eff up a crowbar in 15 seconds, giving the band its name as a parting gift), which is the same career path as The Band. King Biscuit Time is the longest-running daily American radio broadcast show, gracing the airwaves since November 21, 1941. Just about all the great blues performers have been on it. Levon Helm (drummer and singer for The Band) said it inspired his career. King Biscuit Flower Hour (a great name, I think) was a weekly rock and roll radio show for 20 years. As Cheap Trick put it, everything works if you let it. My goal is to get everything to touch.