Poodle Ribs Story

As he explains on the spoken prelude (Albert’s an engaging storyteller too), the hilarious “Poodle Ribs” stems from a true if gastronomically unsettling incident in Bashor’s Florida stomping grounds. “There was a barbecue place that I had gone to since I was a little boy with my dad. There was a story in the newspaper about this guy, he had been there for years,” he explains. “They found some dog skeletons out in the woods. These dogs had basically starved, and they accused this gentleman of selling dog ribs, like he might be trying to shave the overhead or something!” The scurrilous charges were disproven, but they inspired a succulent song.