Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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` Foreword John Lee Hooker, and barrelhouse blues. Each set added its own language to the blues. A lot of bucket-of-blood joints, for instance, catered to the junkies and the pimps and the hos. The street set would hang at them joints when the bands they liked would be there, -for-them music. The juke joint was a different kind of set. It was more sophisticated than a bucket-of- shankings in a juke joint as you will in a bucket of blood. You d blood for nothing. under his armpit with an oyster knife! There was a big pile of blood, right where -of-blood kinda lyric. I was always listening for stuff like that. When I first would write songs I would bring them to all these guys in the different record companies in New Orleans back then, and they always would turn me down. So one day I talked to Earl King and Huey Smith, and Huey Smith did a real beneficial thing- he gave me a book for kids called How and Why. It had thes - like what girls sing when they jump rope Tales From The Crypt was to listen to what people said on the street. once upon a time it me general public was on to that, so they reversed it and Stevie Wonder had a hit record, The street language in New Orleans that inspired me was not on just any streets in New Orleans; it was the lower Ninth Ward. New Orleans has got twenty different languages floating through it, but the lower Ninth Ward is the root. I used to hear all kinds of sayings down there. Like, if you want to get a chick, or a chick wants to give a guy head, vi
` mayoun get cherry 1 , then Stuff like that is coming out of the dozens, which is a very strong tradition. A lot of the as straight- All this st - have you ever had oiled some weird seasoning and ed African is here. A lot of the terminology of the blues came from the lottery business, for instance. Musicians picked that shit up- -number combo, and an axe was a gun or a piece, they was pulling a piece on someone. This old numbers cat would Today with hip- kids is doing their thing with it- they kinda half ass it with something they heard from somebody in they family. I can tell some of those guys run with old timers, just from popular no left, I hang with them. It would be a ho-hum planet if everybody sounded the same. So I told Debra, who wrote got the same kinda jive-ass Dr. John New York City vii
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Page 16 and 17: ` List of Entries Please note that
Page 18 and 19: ` A L C O RUB A The drink of last r
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Page 22 and 23: ` Bad Axe (Alligator Records) befo
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Page 26 and 27: ` Blues musicians also used bailing
Page 28 and 29: ` Songs: - Bessie Smith/H.Webman
Page 30 and 31: ` Songs: - Lovie Austin, performed
Page 32 and 33: ` Grab hold of a black cat, she tol
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Page 38 and 39: ` The singing and drumming of the n
Page 40 and 41: ` griots, who keep tribal historie
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Page 46 and 47: ` The modern guitar is a direct des
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` C H I C K The Wolof word jigen de
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` The word chitterling comes from O
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` cock. It 104 Muddy Waters, a.k.
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` Bob M argolin and M uddy Waters,
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` Songs: - Bukka White (Booker
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` C O NJUR E To conjure is to cast
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` 119 the force that character Ult
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` always had this sly smile going
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` C R OSS N O T E Tuning the guitar
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` Johnson was believed by some to h
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` 144 Robert Lockwood became know
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` Songs: - Will Day - Robert John
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` Charlie Patton began recording fo
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` good came out of leaving the pla
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` In blues songs, a person who has
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` Memphis M innie flashes her gold
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` touch the dust and the dust begin
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` which he declared: Songs: Big
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` toenail clippings, or skin from
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` around- brothers were called Wid
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` she went out one morning and foun
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` men feared losing their women to
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` When the Europeans came, when the
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` Songs: Gris- - Dr. John (Mac Rebe
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` H E L L H O UND (see also B L A C
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` H O B O C O C K T A I L When you
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` New Orleans boogie- Songs: -
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` for Jewish. He noted that there a
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` Songs: - Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbe
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` Songs: I drink so much of Jake,
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` Bluebird Records in 1941], I star
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` he flame of a black candle, or p
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` African American charms made with
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` In From Juba to Jive: A Dictionar
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` He said he had friends still in A
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` les my den Although harmless to
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` acres of rich farmland that would
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` , Elmore performances in Chicag
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` Ace set the template that Elvis
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` Three factors determine what a mo
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` produced today in Appalachia, mos
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` The connection between prostitute
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` own. The first state lottery was
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` Meanwhile, thousands of hoe-boys
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` back in the early 1900s, Simmons
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` unregulated entertainment, such a
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` 320 Texas stuff and some Chicago
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` Songs: - Bukka White (Booker T.
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` to play on metal or a box with t
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` Shankings, or stabbings, were fai
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` Some plantation owners were fair,
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` SH I M M Y The shimmy is a dance
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` SH U F F L E The famous blues shu
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` 350 The African American tales
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` to many songs that Dixon wrote ex
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` Songs: Mmm, where my Third Street
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` the far more popular blues artist
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` Songs: - Peetie Wheatstraw - Ha
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` Blues players sometimes also call
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` Songs in Vestapol: Many fine exam
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` True vibrato requires significant
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` On August 22, 1791, Haitian slave
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` W H O OPI E, W H O OPIN G phemis
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` Songs: - Blind Boy Fuller (Fulto
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` Zombie horror imagery figured pro
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` 39 The Life and Selected Writings
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` 131 132 Chernoff, p. 143. 133 A
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` 225 -jungle.html. 226 The Dictio
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` 315 Louisiana Folklore Miscellan
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