A remarkable talent, I'm still getting accustomed to her sleepy approach to singing. Somehow the term was revived for a craft beer by Troegs! I think John Lee Hooker wrote it, but here's the Billy Mize version. It seems to date back to swing music slang and implies a person who is competent and/or attractive. It struck me only because I heard the 1957 *Billy Mize* song "Solid Sender" on the Sirius/XM "Bakersfield Beat" channel. He mentions the term "solid sender" which had exited the popular jargon by the early 60s. In Buddy's version, you can understand the lyrics better than in LR's original. Thanks for feeding my *Buddy Holly* obsession! In the weeks since my visit to the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, I've been listening to and watching every BH performance I can find somehow this slippin' slidin' had escaped my attention. And it, too, is a cover, of a song by the band whose name was inspired by the name of Buddy Holly's band. In fact, the first time it was played anywhere was on SiriusXM last night. I'd been trying to come up with a Billy Eilish tune that would sound good paired with a slow "Slippin' and Slidin'" in Songs for Surviving the Pandemics. In any event, I find the slow versions very compelling. Supposedly, Buddy slowed them down to enunciate carefully so that he could then speed up the tape and sound like the Chipmunks. There were also two slow versions, which you can find on YouTube.
’.”) I think the story is that a few years later a fast version was overdubbed with a band and released.
Shortly before his death in February 1959, Buddy laid down tracks by himself in his apartment, including “Slippin’ and Slidin’.” (That’s some crazy punctuation. Do you hear it? Little Richard co-wrote and made the song famous. Just last week I was thinking about how Slippin’ and Slidin’ (Slow Version #2) Buddy Holly (1963) had a Billie Eilish vibe to it.
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