Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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touch the dust and the dust begins to rise, the seeds, like miniature pockmarks, ride the
wind with their annihilating powers: the force of a smallpox epidemic is
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The cult of Obaluaiye was banned in Nigeria in 1917 by British authorities when its
priests were accused of deliberately spreading smallpox. The cult went underground,
worshipping the smallpox god under different names, such as Oluwa. To this day in
His menace survives in gentler form in the display of brooms in Yoruba households that
are decorated with cowry shells and carvings, and are believed to have the power to
uphold morality and make things right.
-law stepson, guitarist Robert Jr. Lockwood, when asked
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Songs:
- Robert Johnson
- Willie Dixon, recorded by
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The Eagle Rock was a popular African American dance move performed with the arms
outstretched and flapping slowly like wings, while the body rocked side to side, like an
eagle in flight. It was incorporated into a dance called
, as described in
Henry Burris (lyrics):
Then you twist around and twist around with all your might,
then you do the Eagle Rock with style and grace.
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