Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society
Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society
Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society
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He said he had friends still in Angola<br />
Serving from fourteen to ninety-nine<br />
The derivation <strong>of</strong> junco is uncertain but it may have to do with <strong>the</strong> connection between<br />
opium and <strong>the</strong> Chinese. T<br />
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Javanese word jonk -<br />
Too many blues artists have been lost to drug (and alcohol) addiction, yet, as Bonnie<br />
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overcome bitterness and drug or<br />
alcohol abuse and have really surged forward. I believe that Charles Brown and John Lee<br />
Hooker were with us for as long as <strong>the</strong>y were because <strong>the</strong>y were not among <strong>the</strong> people<br />
that kept up bad habits. It makes you wonder what Freddie King and Magic Sam, who<br />
died so early, or even Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield, and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r young<br />
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Songs:<br />
Junko Partner - Michael Bloomfield<br />
- traditional (composer unknown)<br />
- Champion Jack Dupree<br />
K I L L IN G F L O O R<br />
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To be down on <strong>the</strong> killing floor is to have hit rock bottom, according to guitar legend<br />
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electric blues guitar. As composer/multi-<br />
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so many times, sometimes for two minutes, three minutes, five minutes, twenty minutes.<br />
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floors <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Chicago stockyards and slaughterhouses, where many sou<strong>the</strong>rn blacks who<br />
had come North found employment during <strong>the</strong> 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. <br />
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