The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30969   Message #1292988
Posted By: John MacKenzie
09-Oct-04 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
Subject: RE: Lyr: I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
In the 60s I used to frequent a coffee house called L'Auberge in Richmond Surrey. This record along with Country Line Special by Cyril Davies stayed on the juke-bow for years while others changed. Cyril Davies was a local hero as he played regularly at a long defunct venue called Eel Pie Island. I saw many 'names' from the 60s play there, Long John Baldry etc. I have a later CD with the same version by Elmore James. I just remembered another record that stayed for ages on the juke-box, Pressed Rat and Warthog by the immortal Cream, which had a base line that was as near as dammit The Cutty Wren. You know the one that goes, 'Oh where are you going, said Milder to Molder?'
As for brooms or broomsticks, I can only hark back to Let's Jump the Broomstick sung by Brenda Lee. Jumping the broomstick of course meaning getting married.
Giok