Jake Leg Blues

Subject: Jake Leg Blues
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:17 AM

This week's New Yorker has a long and fascinating article on the disease, jake leg, which appears in many blues songs. It turns out that it came from a particular batch of contaminated Jamaican ginger extract that down-and-outers drank during Prohibition.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:39 AM

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=162094

Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:42 AM

Oops, shoulda been this. Previous informative thread

Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:38 PM

How interesting -- Mudcat scoops the New Yorker yet again.

yours,

Peter T.