Many thanks, Mike. Might not be too easy to access a copy too soon - just looked, & Amazon prices rather steep* for a book I should probably only use this once as I am not really a blues man. But glad to learn that T Red did see fit to explain it; so presumably someone must have asked the question before me, now. Did the late great Stephen Calt actually ask him, or go to other sources. I see the subtitle of Barrelhouse Words is A Blues Dialect Dictionary.

Any chance of any sort of summary?

Best Regards

Michael~

*Drift: the pb is £9.30 new, £12.40 used. One often finds this anomaly on Amazon. Anyone know why?