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This Buffalo Nickel

by Samm Bennett - Polarity Records

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I am joined here by Habu Hiroshi, a fine rhythmist who I worked with several years back. He is playing a big, low pitched drum that he made himself.

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This Buffalo Nickel

sing my praises
bring me cornbread
carve my name on every tree in town
get your motor running
try my beans and chicken
like showers of rain
honey let your love come down

then put this buffalo nickel
into your red hot skillet at midnight

find a dead cicada
wait til noon tomorrow
then waltz across your kitchen to a 4/4 beat
anoint yourself with butter
pronounce all silent letters
kick a tin can all the way down easy street

then put this buffalo nickel
into your red hot skillet at midnight

give banjo strings to the butcher
go slap that fool in the corner
don't ever jump to conclusions in the rain
catch the nine oh three to Cleveland
put a juke box in your corn field
do whatever it takes to ease the pain

then put this buffalo nickel
into your red hot skillet at midnight

burn this picture of Elvis
drink this bucket of Kool Aid
don't try to take a page out of my book
toss these pebbles, listen to the rhythm
take this hammer, carry it to the captain
shake it up baby til it stays real shook

then put this buffalo nickel
into your red hot skillet at midnight

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released May 4, 2020
Samm Bennett: vocal, 3-string guitar, sandpaper
Habu Hiroshi: drum
Recorded at Polarity Studio, Tokyo, Japan

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Samm Bennett - Polarity Records Tokyo, Japan

Singer and songwriter, player of unusual string instruments such as 3-string and 1-string guitar, plus jaw harps, mouthbow, electronics and junk, plus all manner of drums and percussion.

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