Dirty Blues and Kalamazoo

After finding that the original nasty "Stoop Down" song on this nasty record by Chick Willis came from Kalamazoo's La Val Records, I found that they're still on the map.

And Jimmy Lynch, a good friend of Rudy Ray More, also recorded for La Val. This record, "recorded live at the famous El Grotto bar in Battle Creek, Michigan at one of its fabulous Sunday afternoon matinees," and released in 1961, may be the first record ever to contain the word "fuck."

We here at SwaG! salute our hometown of Kalamazoo, Mich., population 77,145 dirty motherfuckers. Sa - Lute!