Chinga Chavin is the

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of American musician and advertising executive Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin. Chavin released the album ''Country Porn'' in 1976 on Attic Records.

Life and career

Nick "Chinga" Chavin was born in 1944. He achieved considerable notoriety when he recorded and released the raunchy comedy album ''Country Porn'' in 1976. It was sold through the mail by '' Penthouse'' magazine and sold over 100,000 units. ''Country Porn'' was reissued on CD in 1992 with liner notes, a booklet complete with song lyrics and photographs, and four bonus songs. Track 2 of the album is a song Chavin wrote with friend Kinky Friedman, the comedic "Asshole from El Paso," a blithely vulgar parody of the country classic " Okie From Muskogee" by

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. Friedman later recorded a much shorter and less rudely worded version of the song. Track 3 of the album, "Cum Stains on the Pillow", was covered in reworded form by

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, on his 1978 album '' Nothing Sacred''. Chavin's other albums are ''Jet Lag'' and ''Live and Politically Erect''. He contributed two songs to the soundtrack of the adults only mystery thriller ''Punk Rock''. Chavin now runs an advertising agency in New York City.

Cultural impact and legacy

Country Porn holds a unique place in popular and country music history, but four decades later, in 2016, Wheeler Walker Jr. seems to have picked up the torch of satirical, sexually explicit, deliberately offensive country songs.

Selected discography

*''Country Porn'' (Attic – LAT 1094, 1976) #Talkin' Matamoros First Piece O' Ass Blues #Asshole From El Paso #Cum Stains On The Pillow (Where Your Sweet Head Used to Be) #Head Boogie #Sit, Sit, Sit (Sit On My Face) #Dry Humping In The Back Of A Fifty-Five Ford #Get It On The Run #Tit Stop Rock #4:00 A.M. Jump #Cum Unto Jesus (A Sacred Tune) #Bennies An' Beer #No Sell-Out Too Small #Jailbait #Scum Floats (The last four songs were bonus tracks on the 1992 CD re-issue)

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* American comedy musicians American satirists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-musician-stub