It's Tight Like That

Tampa Red teamed up with pianist Thomas A. Dorsey (billed as "Georgia Tom") for a session that entirely altered the commercial blues landscape. "It's Tight Like That" was an upbeat, incredibly catchy tune driven by bouncy piano and Red's single-string guitar work, full of sly, humorous double entendres. The record was a smash hit, eventually selling millions of copies over its long lifespan and officially launching the "Hokum" blues craze of the late 1920s. Ironically, Dorsey would later abandon secular music entirely, becoming the pioneering "Father of Black Gospel Music" and writing "Take My Hand, Precious Lord."