Not really....those of us here in the Southland knew it firsthand,us whiteboys just didn't always go into the bars where they were playing the blues.
It was a very different time back then,and the English didn't understand why we were segregated in our music also...but my uncles who played in bands in the late 50's and early 60's were going to hear Ray Charles and other black artists and playing blues before Clapton and his buddies did.

ZZdoc- According to "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy the Brits didnt lug bales of cotton.

They used to carry around 'furzefaggots', whatever in the world that is.

Return of the Native followed by Silas Marner, made for a very long 10th grade.

British blues has always been my favorite music. Since about 1965.

AGREED!

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Juke joints....weren't they?

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Incredible Graduated from high school 50 years ago this June and here I find someone who felt about those two novels exactly as I did all those years ago.

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Knitgirl holds bragging rights to nothing, and might likely risk catching a cold.

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Sorry to but in but not all us Brits are English! There are 4 countries in the U.K.

CC

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hahahahaha

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Hey funny man why don't you add this old quote of mine to your signature:

"You know I may be a zombie but it is clear to me, you BCB, are an absolute moron, a sanctimonious a-hole and a dimwit".

I have read alot of your post and for someone who has only played guitar for only a year you seem to be an expert on guitars and their quality and a know it all about music.

OZZY RULES!!!

Whats all the hub-ub?

CC

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This jerk BCB is using my quote in his signature without my permission.

OZZY RULES!!!

Don't feel bad Knitgirl knowing John Mayers exploits he'd probably even sleep with me.I always thought that one John Henry was a signer of The Declaration of Independence and that's where the expression "Put your John Henry here." came from.Am I right or mistaken?Any historians out there?

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Wow, lets put this thread back on track...
From wiki: "Big Bad John" is a country song originally performed by Jimmy Dean and composed by Dean and Roy Acuff. Released in September 1961, by the beginning of November it went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.
The song and its sequel tell a story typical of American folklore, reminiscent of Paul Bunyan or John Henry.

The song tells the story of a mysterious and quiet miner who earned the nickname Big John because of his height, weight and muscular physique ("He stood six foot six and weighed two forty-five"). He supposedly came from New Orleans, where he killed a man over a Cajun woman.
One day, a support timber cracked at the mine where John worked. The situation looked hopeless until John "grabbed a saggin' timber, gave out with a groan / and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone", then "gave a mighty shove", opening a passage and allowing the other miners to escape the mine. Although the miners were about to reenter the mine with the equipment necessary to save John, the mine fully collapsed and John died in the depths of the mine. The mine itself was never reopened, but a marble stand was placed in front of it, with the words "At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man - Big John" written on it. (Some versions of the song change the last line to "lies a big, big man" to replace what was at the time considered to be borderline profane language.)
Its 1962 sequel, "The Cajun Queen", describes the arrival of "Queenie", Big John's Cajun Queen, who rescues John from the mine and marries him. Eventually, they have "one hundred and ten grandchildren". The sequel's events are more exaggerated than the first, extending the story into the realm of tall tales.
In June 1962, the story continued (and evidently concludes) with the arrival of "Little Bitty Big John", (the flip side to "Steel Men" on Columbia 4-42483), learning about his Father's act of heroism.

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Ouch!! History bites Certainly don't want to go there.

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