Greatest Washboard Solo ever Committed to Tape

And I can say this with some authority, being a Louisiana boy who has experienced many a scritchy-scratchy moment at even more sweaty outdoor zydeco concerts.

Back in January, I went to see the North Mississippi All-Stars at SoGo, and during the second blistering set (these guys don't really do it for me on record, but are stupid crazy good live, and I don't mean by usual jam standards of "sounding good when you are high" sounding good. I mean, they totally rock out, cock out and all) , Luther put down his guitar and took to the drums, while brother Cody hooked a washboard to a tangled effects pedal board and basically opened up a god's eye of racket, turning what at first seemed a brave step past "extended drum solo" in the annals of Concert Tediousness into the kind of feral cosmology I look to the Boredoms and and The Stooges and Albert Ayler for.

The whole concert is available on SoGo's media page for download (Attention bands and nite-klubs of planet Earth. Please start doing this. We will all love you long time for it) but, here is what Buddha's washbord sounds like when he makes Jimi Hendrix play it to enetrtain the troops in Purgatory :

Scritchy-schratchy-boom-the universe explodes