About This Song
About "Yellow Dog Blues (with Shorty Rogers and his Giants)" by Eartha Kitt
Kitt inhabits 'Yellow Dog Blues' with feline wit, her diction a blade wrapped in velvet. Shorty Rogers' Giants lay a brass-lit bed of West Coast jazz, and the song becomes a wry travelogue of loss—the blues rendered not as sorrow but as a knowing, sideways smile at fate's crooked road.
