The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14514   Message #896775
Posted By: Bill D
23-Feb-03 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Black Woman
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Black Woman
I 'absorbed' that song about 1963-4 from a blues player named Gene Vermillion (looked like a short, squat, redheaded Irishman, but if you closed you eyes, you'd swear he was black)....I don't really do blues, but now and then I'll drag that up as an example of something. Roger in Baltimore identified it for me several years ago as being "Jet Black Woman" instead of "Bald Headed Woman", as weak attempt to make it "PC".