What are the best songs featuring washboard?
And a follow-up question: what is better, washboard sound or reco reco?
― dean ge, Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)
fuck a washboard, get one jug blower
― sanskrit, Monday, 25 June 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)
You're essentially comparing percussion to woodwind, you nutjob!
Besides, the 13th Floor Smellevators ruined me on that fine instrument.
― dean ge, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)
woodwind brass
― dean ge, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)
It's a cool sound. Klkllklklk!... Klkllklklk! or Kshukkashukkashukka!
I'd say I prefer an old, wooden washboard to a a reco reco because it sounds just about the same if you play it right. And you can get less definition for the Kshukkashukkashukka sound if that's what you need. Plus, when you're done, you can get that stain out of your shirt.
Anyway, I nominate Fee because I think in the studio it's a reco reco and live it has been a washboard and because it is about a buddhist weasel featuring lyrics about nipple-slicing.
― dean ge, Monday, 25 June 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)
Lotsa stuff by Black Oak Arkansas, particularly the ironically-titled "When Electricity Came to Arkansas".
BTW, I really prefer to call it a "scrub-board" - the word "washboard" I find a bit too high-falutin'.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 25 June 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)
"In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)