[Dixielandjazz] Re: Re. Yellow Dog Blues

[Jim Beebe]

Re. Yellow Dog BluesGood.  thank you for this very clear explanation.

Jim Beebe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stan Brager 
  To: Nancy Giffin ; jbeebe at centurytel.net ; DJML 
  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:11 PM
  Subject: Re: Re. Yellow Dog Blues


  My understanding is that the "Southern" and the "Yellow Dog" refers to railroad lines. They cross in the town of Moorhead, Mississippi. The Yellow Dog was the Yazoo Delta Railroad whose initial were Y.D. or Yellow Dog. The Southern was simply the Southern  Railroad. There's an excellent website which presents more than most want to know about these rail lines:

  http://www.earlyblues.com/Yellow%20Dog.htm

  "Easy Rider", on the other hand, is found in many blues texts and most blues historians accept that an easy rider was an itinerant boy friend who would come into town generally on the railroad and leave the same way.

  It's the rest of the lyrics which have me puzzled. By the way, the lyrics can be found at this website:

  http://ingeb.org/blues/yellowdo.html

  There may be others who dispute this information - I'm open to all who can contribute.

  Stan
  Stan Brager
  Trombonist-in-Training
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Nancy Giffin 
    To: sbrager at socal.rr.com 
    Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 12:53 PM
    Subject: Re. Yellow Dog Blues




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    From: "Jim Beebe" <jbeebe at centurytel.net>
    I'm curious...what is the significance of "where the Sourthern cross the
    Yellow Dog" and what a "easy rider" was?

    Jim Beebe

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    Me, too. As a "kid," there are so many of these lyrics that go over my head now that they are so far out of common usage. You have a listening ear for any history of jazz and blues that you care to impart.

    Hope your son is loving Santa Barbara. Tough to get the Blues there!

    Love and hugs,
    Nancy