4F Ferdinand the Frantic Freak - Harry the Hipster Gibson

Harry (the Hipster) Gibson blends jive & barrelhouse as he pounds out his boogie woogie like Jerry Lee Lewis poundng out rock n roll. A hipster poet precursor to the Beats & even the hippies, Harry’s daringness occasionally got him in trouble, as you can imagine might happen, when in the midst of WWII he released this tune in praise of a guy who won’t be drafted. “4F“ was the designation for undraftable as opposed to “1A“ the first choices to draft, and 4F Ferdinand gives every excuse in the book for no
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