668 Rufus Thomas (1917-2001) “Walking the Dog” 1963

“Thomas believed that as a pure entertainer he had no equal. As he put it: ‘There is nobody alive, on the face of the earth, who can do Rufus like I do Rufus.’…his influence derives from the bawdy figure he cut and the freewheeling tone he set…He gave hot-blooded young male musicians from Mick Jagger to Busta Rhymes the grammar for thinking and talking and joking about their deepest, darkest, nastiest urges. With unabashedly raunchy good humor, he helped define the tradition of the fun-loving trickster, the likable lech” (Thomas Hackett, Southern Cultures, Spring 2013). 

Rufus Thomas “Walking the Dog”