In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists (Europe), Paul Oliver, Jazz Journal, The Story of the Blues, Mack McCormick, Mance Lipscomb, Chris Strachwitz, Alex Küstner, Big Joe Williams, Watergate Blues, Ziggy Christmann, The Living Country Blues, James Thoman, Eugene Powell, Furry Lewis, George Mitchell, Lee Friedlander, Michael Roach, Bengt Olsson, Memphis Blues, Mississippi Bottom Blues, …
Tag: Freddie Spruell
zzvk | Tipple Blues, Tomcat Blues, Diamond dust (word meanings 3)
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, …
zzvl | Milk Cow Blues
In this column: Milk Cow Blues, meaning, Kokomo Arnold, earliest recording, Freddie Spruell, Sara Martin, Mean Tight Mama, Clarence Williams, Son House, My Black Mama, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Milkcow's Calf Blues Well I woke up this mornin', Looked outdoors I can tell my milk cow, I can tell by the …
zzvo | Mary had a little lamb
In this column: Mary had a little lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, Tisket-tasket, nursery rhymes, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Spruell, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Earl Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Thomas Edison On the Kokomo Blues pages one of the verses reads: ... Listen now, Mary had a little lamb, I mean, its fleece was white as snow …
zzvp | Kokomo Blues
In this column: Kokomo, Kokomo Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, Madlyn Davis, James "Kokomo" Arnold, Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell, Freddie Spruell, Robert Johnson, Eleven Light City, speakeasy, Big `Boy Knox, Elwood Haynes, The Pioneer Freddie Spruell - Mr. Freddie's Kokomo Blues (1926) Now, these women 'round Chicago screamin', holl'in' 'bout the times so hard And the women …