Dirty Girl

from Kings For Sale by Afton Wolfe

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Dirty Girl is a song about a road trip through Mississippi. The first stop on the road trip is Oxford, Mississippi where Afton reminisces about partying at Proud Larry’s and seeing Jimbo Mathus before having one too many at the Graduate in Oxford Square. Then in Clarksdale, Afton comes across the repass for the recently-deceased King of the Delta Blues, Robert “Bilbo” Walker. The adventure goes through a rainy cab in Jackson down to the Big Easy. The song features Cary Hudson (acclaimed Blue Mountain frontman and Mississippi bluesman) on harmonica and bottleneck electric guitar (he is also heard at the beginning of the album version giving his hypothesis on the reason why Mississippi is so consistently a geographic center of spirituality. Ben Babylon plays piano, Seth Fox saxophone, Blaise Hearn on trumpet, Joey Dykes on trombone, and Daniel Seymour and Tommy Stangroom round out the rhythm section to take this song from the front porch of a shotgun house in the Delta to the thick spicy air of New Orleans, as the song gets progressively more Bon Temps as the odyssey gets further south down the Old Man.

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Dirty Girl, Dirty Girl, come with me to New Orleans.
We’ll go on down to Oxford Square
at Christmas time and see ol’ Jimbo there.
Then at the Graduate, you gon and messed up my hair.
Say, do you remember what we did in Oxford Square?
Dirty Girl, Dirty Girl, come with me to New Orleans.
We’ll stop off round bout old Clarksdale
at the Repass, where everybody’s dressed so well.
Razorblade and Shankerman and Kings for Sale
Ain’t nothing we can do, it’s all for the family now, in old Clarksdale.
Dirty Girl, Dirty Girl, come with me to New Orleans.
Take me out in Jackson town
to The Underground with Mr. Nutty Brown,
F.Jones and tired bones and rain falling down.
Hey, don’t tell nobody what we did in Jackson town.
Dirty Girl, Dirty Girl, come with me to New Orleans.
When we get there we’ll get some Good Voodoo
Some tasso and trombone, some gator too.
Ah, you know I took the long way home like I always do.
846 miles in a rental car with me, the Pope, and you.

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from Kings For Sale, track released April 23, 2021

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Afton Wolfe Nashville, Tennessee

Afton is a product of his home, Mississippi. It is the birthplace of at least 2 American art forms: country music
and blues music. Meridian is the birthplace of Jimmy Rodgers, while the Mississippi Delta is the
birthplace of the blues, and the first rock n’ roll notes ever played, according to some music historians,
came from Hattiesburg. Afton also draws much of his style from nearby New Orleans. ... more

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