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Orchid Jams

I love the opening of Ram Jam's "Black Betty". I'm less enthusiastic about the rest of the song, and I often stop listening after the prelude when it happens to play on my phone. But I just realised that The White Stripes' "Blue Orchid", which has a similar sort of beginning, delivers a kind of experience that the introduction of "Black Betty" might have implied in my imagination. Now I'm thinking that I don't even need the Ram Jam track in my library anymore.

But I'm keeping "All for the Love of Rock N' Roll". Something about shoes.

 

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Best Betty? All of them.


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