Topic: Don't Start Me To Talkin' ? Quote Drive 2011

[uncle bud]

He carried a pearl-handled .44, and he could shoot the head off a chicken. - Ishmon Bracey remembering Blind Lemon Jefferson

[Johnm]

I hope Lemon didn't have to demonstrate that particular ability too many times, like a parlor trick.
All best,
Johnm

[Gumbo]

I was bare-footed, naked, out in the ice and snow, with all my yes-yes out, 'nd see my big toe
I was bare-footed, didn't have on no shoes, and the rocks gravel and concrete is giving my toe the blues.
Peetie Wheatstraw

[LD50]

"Got a head full of foolishness, my baby got a ramblin' mind." - Jaybird Coleman

[Gumbo]

"Well it's just some lot of stuff that we made up and put in there". RL Burnside on the meaning of 'Love is the Devil but it won't get me'

[RobBob]

"I hope it done did all it's gonna do" - George Higgs after taking a sip of the Dark Corner's best product before going on stage.

[Gumbo]

Come and walk with me down to my lovin shack tonight
I'll certainly treat you just like you was white

Robert Wilkins - Falling down Blues

[unezrider]

hello friend,
that wilkens line always jumped out at me every time i listened to that song. sort of speak volumes. one of those "i really have no idea what life must have been like for african americans in the south" moments.

great song, too

[Slack]

"The blues is the roots. Everything else is the fruits."

Willie Dixon

[uncle bud]

You know if I don't go crazy, God knows, I believe I'm gonna lose my mind. - Hammie Nixon, Yellow Yam Blues

[unezrider]

"He hollered like someone was hitting him all the time." Rev. Gary Davis, on the singing style of Blind Lemon Jefferson.

[uncle bud]

Well, he may be old, but he sure will make you whine. - Jimmy Lee Williams, What Makes Grandpa Love Grandma So

[unezrider]

If you've ever been hurt by your main squeeze, deceived by your best friend, or down to your last dime and ready to call it quits, Albert King has the solution if you have the time to listen. ? Deanie Parker, "Born Under A Bad Sign" liner notes, 1967.

[Rivers]

Del played tougher than a boiled owl, and I still pity the fool what?s got to follow her on to the stage. She sang prettier than many a woman with a guitar known primarily for their voice. Her original instrumental, Wobbly Walk, inspired by chapters 16-18 (Debbs and Socialism) of  Howard Zinn?s classic People?s History of the United States is a hoot and conjures up a Chaplanesque Bo of old, IWW card fresh in hand, struttin? his stuff - Mr O'Muck review, Opera House gig somewhere off the mainland, Maine, USA

[unezrider]

"Rube puts a lot of weird moaning and groaning into this number and some fancy guitar playing, too." -  from the Paramount ad for Rube Lacy's "Mississippi Jail House Groan".