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This is the trouble blues, that Lightnin' Hopkins is havin' at the present, which I hope it don't last all week - Lightnin' Hopkins, intro to Trouble Blues

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Offline uncle bud

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #90 on: August 13, 2012, 02:14:45 PM »
The cruel irony is that the majority of "The People" can't stand the noise that comes out for more than a few seconds unless it's in the hands of a competent operator. This, combined with the common belief that anyone can play it right away (cue up "Oh Susanna") has created a nearly unbearable tension between the harmonica, its enthusiasts and the rest of humanity. I believe that this tension can be relieved and that the harmonica can take its rightful honored place in the post-apocalyptic world to come. - Mark Graham, harmonica ace

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #91 on: August 22, 2012, 04:21:28 AM »
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. -Groucho Marx


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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #92 on: August 22, 2012, 06:41:17 AM »
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. -Groucho Marx
Good old Groucho. I have a couple of his books of selected writings and prose from the 70s, and they are hilarious.

For years I used to have Goucho's "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member" on a sweatshirt! (Did someone say "whatever floats your boat"?)

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #93 on: August 22, 2012, 08:42:27 AM »

Groucho (to a contestant on his quiz show): Are you married? Got any kids?

Contestant: Why yes, I have nine children.

G (after slight double-take): Nine children!? Why so many?

C: Well, I like children, and I really love my wife!

G: Huh? I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

(Somehow this got by the censors of 1950s American TV shows.)

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #94 on: August 24, 2012, 06:21:37 AM »
"Ernest (for some reason he always called Scruggs Ernest), you're a fine banjo player, but you ain't a bit funny." - Uncle Dave Macon to Earl Scruggs, from Rutherford County Historical Society Publication No. 35 by Charles Wolfe

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #95 on: September 04, 2012, 01:16:21 PM »
This is Roscoe Holcomb, and the title of this song is the Stingy Woman Blues. I made it myself - Roscoe Holcomb on Mountain Music of Kentucky

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #96 on: September 07, 2012, 12:02:48 PM »
Save me the head. - Algia Mae Hinton, "When You Kill the Chicken Save Me the Head"

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #97 on: September 13, 2012, 07:26:23 PM »
The poor are getting poorer. The rich are getting rich. If I don't starve I'm a son of a gun - David McCarn, Cotton Mill Colic
« Last Edit: September 13, 2012, 07:28:49 PM by Rivers »

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #98 on: September 23, 2012, 02:38:07 AM »
"We can hardly get our breath, taxed and schooled and preached to death; Tell me how can a poor man stand such times and live?" Blind Alfred Reed, 1929
That's all she wrote Mabel!

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #99 on: September 25, 2012, 08:57:55 PM »
So cold and shady, bird can't hardly fly - Robert Pete Williams, It's So Cold In Chicago

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #100 on: September 26, 2012, 05:10:42 AM »
"I'm an uncomfortable horrible terrible unconsolable unlucky man." Allen Brothers - Unlucky Man 1931

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #101 on: September 26, 2012, 03:36:03 PM »
"I went to the graveyard just to dig me up some gold ..." - Allen Brothers, Maybe Next Week Sometime, 1930

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #102 on: October 22, 2012, 05:42:24 AM »
This quote came up for me this morning:

"I done seen better days, but I'm putting up with these - Richard Rabbit Brown, Times Ain't Like They Used To Be."

I'm pretty sure it's from "James Alley Blues."

Lyle

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #103 on: October 22, 2012, 08:51:45 AM »
Indeed, and still not fixed after more than one person pointing out the error. Some of these days....

Also immortalized on the Weenie coffee mug.

Offline Rivers

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #104 on: October 22, 2012, 04:40:25 PM »
Right song, wrong line, now fixed. And it does make the weenie coffee mug much more valuable.

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