Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask

Subject: RE: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
From: Steve-o
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 04:37 PM

Cool questions, Beans. Somehow my feeble memory says that a "mojo" is "control over someone else's drug habit". It may have expanded and generalized over time just to mean having "a magical spell on someone". Also, I've always wondered.....if you don't like my peaches, why would you shake my tree??

Subject: RE: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 04:21 PM

What the hell is mojo anyway?

Subject: Folk music questions I'm afraid to ask
From: Cool Beans
Date: 05 Feb 03 - 01:45 PM

1. Who is Eloise and how'd she get a job lining track?
2. Why is the postman whistling cheerfully in "The Letter Edged in Black,'' knowing that a black-bordered envelope denotes a death?
3. How, exactly, does my old gal look like a waterfowl in "Deep River Blues''? Is she standing on one leg, like a crane? Holding her head down like a duck?
4. Why does "Cocaine Blues'' posit that cocaine's for horses? What equine ailment would it treat?