Richard Farina was appearing on a television program I was working. He introduced Jelly Roll Blues with a detailed description of a bakers strike in New Orleans in the late 1880s. As the camera dollied in on him, he did this ad lib explanation of how the song is about that strike. As a result of the strike, there were no jelly rolls available in New Orleans for an extended period of time. He did it all deadpan and I don't think that the director or anyone else, except the musicians, knew that he was having them on.

Sourdough