Now, whoever said a good man was hard to find, positively absolute less
sure was lying, because I just found the best man that ever was.
And here's just a few other things that he does out He shakes my ashes,
greases my griddle. Hello, I'm Gael Nobles. Welcome to Podcasting Blues.
Today's topic is Alberta Hunter. The words that you have heard me say
from the beginning comes from Alberta's track My Handyman Ain't handy no More. She's
singing about how her man takes care of her household, chores and fixes things.
He does everything for her, but the title of the song is saying
that the man is not handy no more. So in the title it sounds
as if Alberta is saying that he is no longer able to do all of
those things he has done. But in the song there is no frustration or
disappointment having someone to rely on, so she could also be saying that he's
more to her than a handyman. Alberta Hunter was a jazz and blues singer
and songwriter from the early nineteen twenties to the late nineteen fifties. After twenty
years of working as a nurse, Hunter resumed her singing career in nineteen seventy
seven. She lived to get eighty nine years old. I'm Gail Nobles.
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