If you've ever been hurt by your main squeeze, deceived by your best friend, or down to your last dime and ready to call it quits, this cat has the solution if you have the time to listen. Ladies and Gentlemen's...and all those who wish to be considered so! Here 'tis! Here goes the greatest remedy for the blues on earth! The results obtained by the use of this track have been phenomenal! Your enemy cannot harm you, but watch your close friend - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn I wanted to buy me some cakes but I had shot dice and lost my roll - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bakershop Blues "Sweet Singer of the Swamplands Here to Do a Few Tunes between Homicides" - January 3, 1935, headline in the New York Herald Tribune announcing the arrival of Leadbelly I had to steal music from every which a way to get it... to get it to fit - Willie McTell, intro to The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues Some folks dig the swamp blues...I YAM THE SWAMP, Y'ALL ! They tell me God don't like ugly. Said, boy, your home's in hell - Sam Chatmon, God Don't Like Ugly When Paramount Records got the ol' chap to make this record, they put over a big one for the Blues! He is a blues preacher that knows how to pick and holler! Listen to this a here record right now! And now, emanating from the Secaucus Lounge of the Fabulous Fandango Hotel in Weehawken, New Jersey - We proudly present the celestial melodies of Lou Waxman And his Orchestra, who ask the age old musical question... Aunt Caroline Dye she told me, "Son, you don't have to live so rough" "I'm going to fix you up a mojo, oh Lord, so you can strut your stuff" [Go on and strut yo' stuff!] Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do All has not been said and never will be Only those with no memory insist on their originality I know my crown gonna fit me well, 'cause tried it on at the gates of hell - Reverend Gary Davis 'Scuse my cough, I slept in a chicken house last night. - Jesse Fuller Nothing annoys me more when I'm talking to someone about music and for some reason, they think their opinion is as valid as mine. We wrote this song, it's our own compose' - Sleepy John Estes, Don't You Want To Know 1941 Uh - but we celebratin' Christmas wrong from the way I look at the matter - shootin' off fireworks, cussin', and dancin', raisin' all other kinds of sand... uh - Death may be your Santa Claus! All of you who are decoratin' your rooms and gettin' ready for an all night dance - Death may be your Santa Claus! Death is on your track and is going to overtake you after awhile - Reverend J.M. Gates (about Elvis Presley) I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang "Old Blind Barnabus" together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There'll never be another like that soul brother.--James Brown I don't play 'em, I stomp 'em. - Bukka White When you go down on Deep Ellum, keep your carburator clean, 'cause the women on Deep Ellum sell you dirty gasoline - Bill Neely If I had one biscuit, and you hadn't eaten nothin' in a month, I'd break it in two and eat both pieces - Yank Rachell to Howard Armstrong in Louie Bluie Here she comes! The Black Diamond Express to Hell with Sin the Engineer holding the throttle wide open; Pleasure is the headlight, and the devil is the conductor. You can feel the roaring of the express and the moanin' of the drunkards, liars, gamblers and other folk who have got aboard. They are hell-bound and they don't want to go. The train makes eleven stops but nobody can get off - Vocalion advertisement for Rev. A.W. Nix's 1927 recording Black Diamond Express to Hell It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that - Fats Waller "...When I play-- if you pay attention, what I sing the guitar sings, too. And what the gu