“Plain Spoken”
by The Sky Saxon Blues Band
1967 song
The Seeds recorded sixteen takes of the blues song "Plain Spoken" for their album A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues, recorded in 1966 but released a year later following Future. Members of Muddy Waters’ band sat in with The Seeds, who were recording as The Sky Saxon Blues Band, for this October 14, 1966 session. This was the final session for the LP, and the band was settled into their bluesy groove by now.
Daryl Hooper’s creepy-sounding organ sounds good over the comfortable band, which is given considerable swing thanks to the subtle, rhythmic saxophone work of James Wells Gordon. Sky’s quirky, not-always-rhyming lyrics on "Plain Spoken" concern a romance complicated by a language barrier:
She spoke of Japan
Her English I don’t understand
With an easy panache that not all of the album’s tracks are able to summon, "Plain Spoken" is a fun highlight of A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues.
