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Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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`<br />

Songs:<br />

- Willie Dixon<br />

<br />

- Muddy Waters (McKinley<br />

Morganfield)<br />

R O L L<br />

Like rock<br />

specifically <strong>the</strong> rolling<br />

<strong>of</strong> heavy bales <strong>of</strong> cotton onto a ship- a job that took three men per bale. Like o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<br />

see ashes<br />

hauled), rolling eventually took on a sexual connotation.<br />

Sexually, to roll meant to heat things up and get caught in <strong>the</strong> inexorable march toward<br />

<br />

Songs:<br />

<br />

<br />

- Son House (Eddie James House, Jr.);<br />

- (John Lee Williamson)<br />

<br />

- B.B. King (Riley King)<br />

R O UND E R<br />

A rounder is a pr<strong>of</strong>essional gambler who travels around looking for high-stakes poker<br />

games. A rounder takes big risks for big money- and sometimes loses big.<br />

<br />

legendary poker players honed <strong>the</strong>ir skills as rounders. Noted rounders include Doyle<br />

Brunson- winner <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first million-dollar poker tournament- Amarillo Slim, and<br />

Sailor Roberts. 323<br />

When a rounder is in town, hold onto your money extra tight, as Blind Blake warned in<br />

<br />

<br />

Same way with a rounder, come in a nice neighborhood<br />

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