In this column: Tipple Blues, tipple, minecarts, Austin and Lee Allen, Tomcat Blues, Freddie Spruell, Caldwell "Mississippi" Bracey, Wilbur Joe "Kansas Joe" McCoy, Lightnin' Hopkins, Diamond Dust, hop, Cannon's Jug Stompers Ain't gonna work on no tipple, ain't gonna load no coal, Put my head out the window, watch my drive wheels roll, sweet mama, …
In this column: funny caper, capers, funny caper blues, slick caper blues, Memphis Willie B., Robben Ford, hookworm blues, hookworm, Blind Blake, rounder, Memphis Rounder Blues, Frank Stokes, Emmett Murray All your funny caper, little girl, is gonna get you a trick someday All your funny caper, little girl, is gonna get you a trick …
In this column: Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee Blues, Bob Lee Junior, Bob Lee Junior Blues, Natchez, Mississippi, Salty Dog Blues, Black Pony Blues, foxtrot and pace, gait, Charlie, Drayman Blues, peaches and don't shake my tree, potatoes and don't dig so deep, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Jug Band, Bo Carter, Arthur Crudup, T-Bone walker, Clifford Gibson
In this column: Gospel, Blues, Denomination Blues, Getting the blues, Washington Phillips, Rosetta Tharpe, Ry Cooder, Big Bill Broonzy, Hans Theessink and Wilson Blount The blues were generated in the cotton fields, on the levees, or on the front porch of a people who has born unspeakable burdens of privation and destitution. Yet the …
In this column: Amen Corner, Gin House Blues, Alabama March, Lion's den, God locked their jaw, Swing low sweet chariot, Papa Charlie Jackson, J.B.Lenoir (photo), Levester "Big Lucky" Carter, Wallace Willis, Amen Corner (band), Cuby and The Blizzards, Nina Simone. ... There’s a preacher in the pulpit, Bible in his hand And the sister’s …
In this column: Judgement day, Twelve gates to the city (three in the east, three west, three south and three south), When the saints go marching in, Beulah Land, Outshine the sun, Hand writing on the wall, Snooky Pryor, Blind Boy Fuller, Barbecue Bob, Mavis Staples ... What you gonna do on judgement day The …
In this column: the songs - St. James Infirmary, Crapshooters Blues, Pneumonia Blues, clothing and more - straight-lace shoes, box-back coat, Stetson hat (homburg), standing pat, double breasted, pallbearers, 'dig my grave with the ace of spades', bootleggers, buggy riders, coupla tens, hoodoo wagon, The Charleston, black (the wearing of...), BVD's, Louis Armstrong, Blind Willie …
In this column: bottle it up and go, bucket's got a hole in it, beer bucket, bourbon, sloppy drunk, John Lee Hooker, Washboard Sam, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Willamson, Whistler's Jug Band (Folding Bed) "May be old, may be gray You ain't too old just to shift them gears You gotta bottle up and …
In this column: moonshine, corn, white lightning, canned heat, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lewis Black, George Jones, Mississippi Fred McDowell Moonshine, also known as "hooch" (a name borrowed from the Hoochinoo tribe of Alaska, known for its potent homemade brew) or "homebrew," is made by fermenting a sugar source to produce ethanol. Traditionally, moonshine is made …
In this column: kidney stew, grits ain't groceries, potatoes, potato head, Sweet Potato Blues, Potato Head Blues, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Little Milton, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Armstrong Crazy about you baby, but I just ain't got the price You're a high class mama, so I guess it ain't no dice Goin' back home, and …
In this column: jelly roll, squeeze my lemon, all that meat and no potatoes, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Art McKay, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Velma Middleton A jelly roll is a dessert made of sponge cake that has been spread with jam (or jam mixed with cream) …
In this column: soul food, downhome southern food, catfish, turnips, tutagabas, cornbread, ham hocks, red beans, cobbler, neck bones, chitlins, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Span and Fleetwood Mac, Papa Charlie Jackson, Kenny Burrell, Chili Blues Soul food (aka downhome southern food) is often mentioned in blues lyrics. The menu includes dishes with: oxtails, neck bones, pigs' …
In this column: Dust my broom, Mop the floor, Moppers blues, Help me, Diggin my potatoes, Cabbage sprouts, Tattoos all red, Elmore James, Howling Wolf, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williams, Muddy Waters, Washboard Sam, Memphis Minnie A sequel to the creeper story: let's look at meanings that are related to breaking a love.In Dust …
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 …
