In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, fattening frogs for snakes, monkey, dog, cat, kingsnake, catfish, Sonny Boy Williamson, Virginia Liston, Bumble Bee Slim, Tampa red, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder, Robert Petway, PART3 Fattening frogs for snake, Sonny Boy Williamson"It took me a long time, to find out …
In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, pullet, cockerel, chicken, rooster, Little Red Rooster, Bessie Tucker, Louis Jordan, T-Model Ford, Mississippi John Hurt, Sam Cooke and Billy Preston, PART2 In Bessie Tucker's Katy Blues you read the following stanza:"Well, I ain't no pullet, I'm a real young hen;If you come by here …
In this column: Symbolic meaning of animals in blues lyrics, pig in a sack, cow and milk, bee's, low down dog, salty dog, Salty Dog Blues, Salty Dog (Bluegrass), Roosevelt Sykes, Sara Martin, Ida Cox, Memphis Minnie, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, Mississippi John Hurt, T-Bone Walker, Denver Pyle and Andy Griffith, PART1 The images …
In this column: Weevil, Boll Weevil, The Katy, The Santa Fe, The Mule, Brook Benton, Bessie Tucker, Taj Mahal, Big Joe Williams Weevil in Can't get no grinding (Muddy Waters) and Boll Weevil (Lead Belly). See an earlier episode.The wheat weevil / grain weevil in "Can't get no grinding" (Muddy Water) is a beetle that …
