archive: blues

Blind Mamie Forehand, Honey in the Rock

Out of my roughly 400 “blind blues” songs, this is the only one by a blind woman; from the amazing and oft referenced Goodbye, Babylon box set.
Honey in the Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand

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do you want to perculate

i’ve been sick, today, wallowing in viral exhaustion. all the juice has gone to my brain, i feel drenched. so in part because i’m totally bored, in part to get us past that nasty business about internet exploration, & in part because i’m tired of reading what feels like the same page over & over […]

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don’t you eat and get too full, ’cause we going down to the pasture, and you may tempt the bull

Until the day I heard a blues song with piano in it, I never loved a blues song. Oh, I had heard blues songs I liked, but none of them knocked me over. I just aprpeciated them and dug them a bit, you know? Then, one song or another (I can’t clearly remember now) took […]

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