"Strike a Match" by Josh Alan Band

"Jerry Leiber bequeathed me the only unreleased song from the Leiber & Stoller catalog of the 1950s, "Strike A Match." The song takes place in a dimly lit Negro bar where, after dancing and before the first kiss, the guy tentatively asks the girl to: Strike a match/Let me see/Yo' face/Yo' face." They'd written it for Howlin' Wolf or Muddy. Then it got lost in a closet for 45 years."
-- Josh Alan Friedman

"Strike a Match" appears on the 2002 release JOSH ALAN BAND and can be purchased here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joshalanband

"Kiss My Big Black Tokhis!" relates Josh Alan's experience of working with Leiber on an ill-starred autobiography, and became the eye-opening, jaw-dropping kickoff chapter of Friedman's classic 2008 collection TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED.

You can see Josh Alan perform another Leiber & Stoller gem, "Down Home Girl" - with Leiber's original, supressed lyrics - here: http://youtu.be/55CQvAhyrcg

Friedman's remembrance of the late, great Jerry Leiber for the Dallas Observer can be read in its original, uncut form on his website, http://www.BlackCrackerOnline.com

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