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Chinga Chavin's Country Porn

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Inspired by a post, ur, someone made on the Gary Wilson thread revive.

This isn't the only album by Montclair NJ's Chinga Chavin, but it's certainly the most "well known." It was released originally in 1976(?) Anyway, Chinga Chavin's Country Porn is actually quite a well produced record for its time...(or at least the CD issue makes it sounds like it was) Musically, it doesn't really poke at any odd edges or anything, other than lean on the slightly (and i stress "slightly") rockin' side of mid 70s country. But you can easily see why, say, Jello Biafra, Mojo Nixon, or Rob Morgan of The Squirrels would/might like this record.

The track listing:
* Talkin' Matamoros First Piece O' Ass Blues
* Asshole From El Paso
* Cum Stains On The Pillow
* Head Boogie
* Sit, Sit, Sit (Sit On My Face)
* Dry Humping In The Back Of A Fifty-Five Ford
* Get It On The Run
* Tit Stop Rock
* 4:00 A.M. Jump
* Cum Unto Jesus (A Sacred Tune)

The CD has some live bonus tracks: "Bennies An' Beer", "No Sell-Out Too Small", "Jailbait", and "Scum Floats".. the latter of which not only kinda predicted late 70s/early 80s Alice Cooper, but also a bit of Rocket From The Crypt circa Scream Dracula Scream, lyrics aside of course.

But anyway, the guy wasn't out to make a hit record, and didn't really try to hide anything. You either liked it, or ran away screaming being horribly offended.. despite the music being someone catchy and nice.

Best part is the post script liner notes from Chinga Chavin himself on this CD issue (from Performance/Fruit Of The Tune 666):

PS: Concerning certain live tracks on this disc: I haven't the faintest fucking idea who is performing with me; however, I do remember that at least one of the pickers and a couple of the singers still owe me money, and I'm starting to get pissed...
Chinga

...so, anyone else a fan of this record?

("May Y'all Cream In The American Wet Dream" - Chinga)

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Here's the album cover:

http://www.gregsgrooves.com/images/countryporn.jpg

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

This sounds awesome!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Never heard this guy before? Is he closer to being Kinky Freidman or David Allen Coe? (or is he like the C&W GG Allin?)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

I never heard either of the two, but he's definitely not the country GG.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Kinky Friedman wrote "Asshole From El Paso"...I used to have an old live album with him singing it, at any rate.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

It's possible! Again, I know neither of the two's music, although I've heard the names before...

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Kinky Friedman is both a surreal mystery novelist and the lead singer of a country and western band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.
David Allan Coe is...well...like an Evil Antimatter Universe version of Charlie Daniels/Steve Earle with Tourettes Syndrome/C&W's equivalent to Steve Albini.


― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

david allen coe is also horribly, evilly racist--capable of writing songs like "lynch a nigger" as much as the haunting and hank williams worthy "lay with me in a field of stone" (both real titles)

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

I would be a bit surprised if Chinga did the same, and I'd be horribly disappointed. I think Chinga's passion is just about dirty sex and shitty people and both. At least this album in particular is racism free.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

i would like to hear it actually--but there are a few coe songs there

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

meaning chinga does coe songs on this album?

*checks liner notes for song writing credits*

Chavin is co-writer on all the songs.. sometimes alongside a Jacobs, Baker, or Hermann.. do those last names ring a bell? Are they aliases for Coe or Friedman?

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

"co-writer" meaning often Chinga's the ONLY writer, and sometimes he has two of the three latter guys as co-writers. Sorry for the confusion.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

david allen coe is also horribly, evilly racist
Hence why he's the evil, anti-matter universe version of Charlie Daniels.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard the "dirty" Coe albums on which his reputation as a racist rests, but my understanding is that calling Coe a racist is at least controversial. He has had Black musicians in his band consistently over the years, going back to the 60s and early 70s when that was not even remotely common in country music. What he did was release a set of foul-mouthed, supposedly-humorous records in the early 80s that apparently include a lot of the N-word (among many other letter-words) and Randy Newman-esque humor that gets taken seriously by some. Bad taste and ham-handed, certainly, but probably not really "horribly, evilly racist".

There ARE horrible, evil racists in the world. It cheapens the epithet to apply it to a guy who put out some potty humor novelty records in the course of a 40-year career mainly focused on great songwriting.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Well, even (though|if) "he doesn't really mean it", it doesn't change the fact that the recordings exist and get used by sheet-wearing nimrods as a creepy form of entertainment.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

But, enough about Coe. I'm sorry I brought him up. I prefer Friedman anyway. (His novels are fun too.)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

i may be wrong, but i thot coe wrote cum stains on the pillow

that novelty shit falls apart when you hear him talk, and well having black members of his band doesnt nessc, mean anything...

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Unless Chinga's plagiarizing (and maybe he is), Coe didn't write *that* "Cum Stains On The Pillow", nor did Friedman ostensibly write *that* "Asshole From El Paso". Again, maybe Chinga's a big con artist. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm sure some googling would uncover some info, but I'm at work, so I'd have to do that tonight.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...
My buddy's older brother had a copy of this album when I was a kid. It was fucking hilarious. I remember this one line ... "then someone whispered, hey meester, how'd you like to fuck my seester. She's a virgin and she looks like a movie star."

― Rollo, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

custos calling david allen coe the steve albini of country was more full of shit than usual for him.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)


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