{"id":3696,"date":"2013-03-14T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2013-04-14T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:53:13","slug":"ricky-allen-cut-you-a-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3696","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Allen – Cut You A Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Ricky Allen – Cut You A Loose<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The end of the week is nigh and so must be the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a>. If you cannot join me at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes or grab an MP3 here at the blog.<\/p>\n

Now…I hope you\u2019re all strapped in securely and have ingested your blood pressure medicine and all necessary sedatives.<\/p>\n

I only mention this because the record I\u2019m going to whip on you this fine day is likely to blow your doors off, set your hair on end and (if you\u2019re lucky<\/em>) drive you into the kind of convulsions often recognized as \u201cdancing\u201d.<\/p>\n

I first heard Ricky Allen\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019courtesy of my friend Michael Newman\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Hinky Dinky Time\u2019 <\/a>radio show.<\/p>\n

It was one of those times where I heard a record for the first time (happens a lot at DJ nights) and the intersections of the pleasure and acquisition centers of my brain light up at exactly the same time.<\/p>\n

Gotta hear that record again, and gotta get me a copy to stash in my play box, in that exact order.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take me too long to find a nice, clean copy of the 45, and when it did fall through the mail slot I digimatized it forthwith and put the digital copy on a loop.<\/p>\n

Like Bobby Parker\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Watch Your Step\u2019, \u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019 is one of those records that lives in the mystical land where blues and soul (and rock\u2019n\u2019roll) coexist peacefully, breeding at will and producing offspring like this.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019 was a Top 20 R&B hit in August of 1963 and Allen (who was born in Nashville but relocated to Chicago in the late 50s) went on to record a handful of 45s in a similar vein through the 60s.<\/p>\n

After I\u2019d digested this tune, it occurred to me that it sounded familiar. It wasn\u2019t until I\u2019d played it a dozen or so times that it occurred to me that \u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019 bore an interesting resemblance to another record, that being Dave Baby Cortez\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Getting To the Point\u2019.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, \u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019 came first (by a few months), with \u2018Getting To the Point\u2019 being a rather savage, Hammond-driven \u201chomage\u201d<\/em>, if you will.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cut You A Loose\u2019 became a Chicago blues standard of sorts, with cover versions by James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells<\/strong>, and Koko Taylor<\/strong> among others (I have no idea how this song didn\u2019t become a staple of Stevie Ray Vaughan\u2019s<\/strong> repertoire).<\/p>\n

Allen apparently retired in the early 70s to run a limousine business and a laundry, before returning to the festival circuit years later.<\/p>\n

This record is as powerful 2:47 of music as you\u2019re likely to find, and I hope you dig it as much as I do.<\/p>\n

See you soon.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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