Consumer Guide: February 2022
Sex-not-love songs from women born 98 years apart, pansexual classroom autobiography, and fictional love & hip-hop drama. Plus: Nas's heavy head, bare-boned rock, & heroines of blues, gospel and rock
Lucille Bogan: Shave ‘Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan (Columbia Legacy ‘04) Tracks 17 to 19 lay out Bogan’s signature title song three ways—one “Clean,” one “Explicit,” one an “I’m Gonna Shave You Dry” variant featuring a fella we’ll presume is pianist-with-a-penis Walter Roland, whose reliable blues licks add extra texture to Bogan’s relaxed, articul…