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Dita	Lyr Req: Buddy Bolden's Blues (17)	RE: Lyr Req: Buddy Bolden's Blues	20 Jan 05
There is an interesting chapter on this song, in the book issued last year "The Rose and the Briar." The word funky did not mean what we understand from modern usage but at the time the song was written it ment nasty, smelly, unplesant. Buddy is infact complaining about the intestinal gas released by someone on the room (i.e. their funky butt). One of Jelly Roll's 1930's recordings, perhaps the 1937 one mentioned above, is on the companion CD. The book (an CD) are worth a look especially as our own kytrad's Barbara Allen is included and Malcom Douglas and Mudcat get a quote. John

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