Topic: Blind Lemon by Michael Gray

[jostber]

An interesting blog entry with comments on Blind Lemon Jefferson from late last year:

http://handmemytravelinshoes.blogspot.com/2009/12/blind-lemon-jefferson.html

As well as this link om Matchbox Blues:

http://heartonastick.blog-city.com/matchbox01.htm

[Bunker Hill]

As well as this link om Matchbox Blues:

http://heartonastick.blog-city.com/matchbox01.htm

The writer is obviously having problems with the second line of the Ma Rainey verse which is given thus:

I'm sitting here wondering : will a matchbox hold my clothes
I've got a *sun to beat* : I'll be farther beyond the road

I think what she sings is:

"I got a trunk too big to be botherin' with on the road"

Any other offers?

I'm sure the line also crops up in another recording of that generation of female vaudevillians.