Joyce Heath

The name of singer Joyce Heath sounds like a large landmark in honor of the great writer, a lusty sort who would undoubtedly have approved of songs such as "Shake Your Can." That's more than can be said for censors when the song was released in the late '50s. Altogether, Heath recorded a dozen ditties in the company of both producers and musicians who had been active in classic blues for several decades, including piano accompanist Al Williams. During the popular heyday of this style, the Roaring Twenties, there had been very little in the way of legal obscenity issues. By the...