Topic: Poplin Family "Sugar Baby" lyric request

[Slack]

Yes, I'd heard of Dominque chickens, Dominicker must be country slang.  UB, if they are talking about killing something, then consult the chicken list  - I'm sure they ate a lot of chicken.

The first line sounds right on to me too.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I always think of a dominicker rooster from Arthur Smith's "House of David Blues"--
   
   Well, the dominicker rooster and the bow-legged hen
   They go together but they ain't no kin

All best,
Johnm

[dj]

First cenotaph, now dominicker.  This forum sure does enrich one's vocabulary.   

[RobBob]

Dominecker is the country term that relates to any speckled gray/black and white chicken.  Usually Barred Rocks and Dominques, the two breeds that display these traits.  The Poplin Family holds a place for us here in SC because they are neither politicians or have found Argentina via the AT.  There are family members in the Columbia area but they are not currently playing music out.  They run a salvage as well.

Their one Folkways album is a real treat and a fine example of old time music in the Palmetto State in the 1960's.

RobBob

[Bunker Hill]

I can't resist this somewhat off topic reminiscence.

In 1966 I purchased from Dobell's record shop in London a copy of Party Blues on Malodeon, the Dick Spottswood enterprise. When I got it home inside the sleeve was not said record but the Malodeon reissue of the Folkways Poplin Family LP. On returning it Ray Bolden, the shop's manager, gave me the correct piece of vinyl but couldn't find the sleeve of said Poplin Family LP. Generous to a fault Ray suggested I keep it as he would have problems selling it without the sleeve. I turned it down saying it wasn't my thing. If I knew then what I know now.....  

[Stefan Wirz]

... the Malodeon reissue of the Folkways Poplin Family LP ...

... as I just learnt from that Poplin family blog posted above the Melodeon LP is NOT a reissue of the Folkways LP --- just corrected my Melodeon Records discography accordingly ...
... a still better moniker for that label could be "Maladeon Records", couldn't it 
Stefan

[waxwing]

In a recent Zoom discussion this word came up and one of the participants offered a link to this definition in Green's Dictionary of Slang:

dominicker n.
also dominecker
SE dominicker, the Dominique fowl or any other chicken with mottled or barred plumage. The dominicker rooster was believed always to back down when challenged by another rooster (W.I.)

1. a coward.

1929   [US]   R. Bradford This Side of Jordan 254: Come on, you dominecker.
2. a person of mixed race, esp. of black, Indian and white ancestry.
   
1939      Federal Writers Project Florida 445: In adjacent back country live �Dominickers,� part Negro and part white, whose history goesd back to the early 1860s (...) The name originated (...) when a white in suing for divorce described his wife as �black and white, like an old Dominicker chicken.� .

Digital edition � Jonathon Green 2024.

I remembered this conversation and I thought someone here might be interested.

Great to see posts by Bunker Hill and Uncle Bud.

Wax

[Stuart]

The link in Suzy's original post:

http://allensarchiveofearlyoldcountrymusic.blogspot.com/2010/01/poplin-family-great-old-time-music-here.html

The song:



The link in Wax's post:

https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/xyb7sfq

I'm going to update the links in my original post.

Thanks for rattlin' my little gray cells back to life, Wax!

[Suzy T]

So fun to see this thread again after, what, 14 years???  I've been AWOL from Weenie Campbell for awhile, miss you all. 

Earlier in the thread, I mention Alan Senauke - he had a horrible medical incident last year, long story short, he is all there mentally but cannot walk or stand or use his left hand (and he is a southpaw).  He is able to do some of his work (he is the Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center) but can't play any music.  I visit him every week (not right now as I am traveling) and have been doing a little singing with him.  I know there are some folks here on Weenie Campbell that know Alan.  If you want to know more:  https://www.caringbridge.org/site/5f8e9c7a-e151-381f-8185-b311c544e39b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web&utm_content=copylink_leftmenu_php
He loves to get email or texts from far-off friends.