syg
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Post by syg on Mar 4, 2016 21:37:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 21:41:57 GMT
I'd love that to all be true, but it seems a little bit of a stretch to me. Interesting though!
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c4h10
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Post by c4h10 on Mar 4, 2016 21:54:36 GMT
Someone has worked very hard on that. Best read on April 1st, though, in my opinion.
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syg
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Post by syg on Mar 4, 2016 22:12:05 GMT
I just remembered being at glasto about 20 years, and PJ Harvey starting singing it at the end of one of her tracks. I got quite excited!
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Mar 5, 2016 14:31:38 GMT
That's great!
It's kind of believable - the basic story is essentially true and has been verified.
The great Bluesmen were of course masters at creating their own mythology. But, on the other hand, most of them did genuinely live extraordinarily rich and wild lives at the very, very tail end of frontier America and where you had to be mighty tough to survive as a black man trying to make a living in travelling as you'd be treated with suspicion and prejudice. Nearly all music in that tradition has a double/treble meaning. Sometimes political, sometimes personal and often obscene. So it is conceivable. |
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