Topic: Blind Blake Lyrics

[Johnm]

Thanks for the suggestions, Blues Vintage. Blake does say "swing", not "bring" in all those places where it shows in the transcription, but I took the "you" start to funny foolin' fix, and the fix for "Hot Potatoes". Thanks.

[Stuart]

...I've also come away with the impression that, like Lonnie Johnson, there was very little that was "country" about his music. He and Lonnie and Papa Charlie Jackson are more appropriately thought of as early Jazz players in some ways, I think.

I agree. Putting aside the genre label for a moment and focusing on defining musical features, I hear someone who benefited from the cross fertilization of musical ideas in an environment where there was a lot going on musically. Some of his guitar solos could just as well have been clarinet solos (or another instrument) in a jazz band setting. I wish we knew more about him so we would have a much fuller picture. But thankfully his music survives.

[RichardW]

Hard Pushing Papa

Three years, woman, ?fore I never lost a bet,

Three years pullman porter, never lost a bet

[Johnm]

Hi Richard,
That's what we have in Weeniepedia. Perhaps you were looking at a transcription of the song early in the thread.