In 1976 for the bicentennial I rented a motor home, I thought that would be so cool, and three months later, I bought the motor home, gave up my apartment and I lived on the road for 26 years with my first two wives. Not at the same time. - Roy Book Binder, Bob West interview, Port Townsend 2006
It was a dream, dream I had last night I dreamed I went to the U.N., and set the whole nation right
I dreamed I called on old Castro, stood him on the floor, looked him right in the eye and said, boy, you got to go. I'm tired of your foolishness, and if you don't behave I'm gonna grab you by your beard, give you a Georgia shave. It was a dream...
Then I told old Khrushchev, sittin' there lookin' bad, Get that junk outta Cuba, 'fore you make me mad, Dig up them missile bases, take them planes and all Or I'll grab me a bat, use your head for the ball. It was a dream...
Then into Washington they called me, and I went there to be the guest, of the president he said Red I'm glad to see you, so glad you come down here, to help me run the Russians, from the Western Hemisphere I said, "You can run the country, I'm gon' run the Senate, I'm gonna make a few changes, put a few soul brothers in it. Ray Charles and Lightnin' Hopkins, and a guy like Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley and Big Maybelle, all I need." It was a dream...
The actual line is "Good bye Casey Bill I'll see you in another town"
The credits say Casey Bill sings but it sounds to me like Broonzy who is not listed as being on the recording (the personel being unclear other than Black Bob piano) but, Broonzy was recroding with Weldon the previous month.
Case 3: Thomas "Barrelhouse Buck" McFarland, "I Got To Go Blues" and "Lamp Post Blues": As he goes into the instrumental break on both songs, Buck shouts "Come on, Peter" to the otherwise unknown violinist accompanying Buck's piano and vocals.
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I dunno if this counts but Kokomo Arnold is given to yelling "play it Jackson!" before a break, The Twelves is a great example. He's referring to himself according to the Yazoo notes, "Jackson" was a then-fashionable Harlem slang term for someone considered "hip".
Must remember that next time I'm playing with someone whose name I've forgotten and want them to take a break, could get interesting if there's more than two people playing.
What a great topic i just read 2 pages but didn't see furry lewis mentioned, cannot remember which furry song now, but im sure someone will, i think the line is, and my Friends say furry ,something,something,something ...cheers K,D is it furrys blues sounds familiar but my brains fuzzy on things like that
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There's the line "I ain't got nobody to say, 'Furry, where you been?'" that occurs in Everybody?s Blues and Rock Island Blues.
There's also the great line, "Don't you wish your mama had named you Furry Lewis?" that occurs (more than once?) in his rediscovery recordings, at least in Don't You Wish Your Mama. I think he uses it elsewhere as well though can't recall at the moment.
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