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09 Sep 03 - 08:17 AM (#1015364) Subject: Jake Leg Blues From: Peter T. 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. |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:39 AM (#1015377) Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues From: GUEST http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=162094 |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:42 AM (#1015380) Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues From: GUEST,Dale Oops, shoulda been this. Previous informative thread |
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09 Sep 03 - 04:38 PM (#1015710) Subject: RE: Jake Leg Blues From: Peter T. How interesting -- Mudcat scoops the New Yorker yet again. yours, Peter T. |