Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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I Had Possession Over Judg
I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long
Boy I woke up this morning, my biscuit roller gone
In the 1930s and 1940s the word biscuit was also sometimes used to refer to a human
skull. 47 The King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas, by the way, has nothing to
Company, which used to sponsor the famous King Biscuit Time radio program.
Songs:
- Kokomo Arnold (James Arnold)
- Robert Johnson
- Alvin Youngblood Hart
B L A C K C A T B O N E
Europeans consider black cats unlucky, but African American hoodoo practitioners
believe that every black cat has one magic bone that is a powerful mojo, or charm. Some
hoodoo practitioners claim that carrying a black cat bone grants invisibility; others say it
can be used to draw a roaming lover home or to dissolve a would-
added a list of ch
the list was a black cat bone:
I got the black cat bone and I got a mojo, too
I got the John the Conqueror Root, gonna mess with you
But how to get the bone out of the cat? According to bluesman Sam Taylor, who was
born in Mobile, Alabama in 1934, there is only one method: boil the unfortunate
animal alive. 48
Taylor recalled that as a little child he eavesdropped behind the kitchen door while a
touring harp player came by each nig
the neighborhood hoodoo lady, for a black cat bone. When, despite her dire warnings, he
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