A Conversation for Down where the Southern Cross the Dog: The Beginnings of the Blues

Indigo is a shade of blue

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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Heard a theory recently that work songs sung
in the American indigo plantations (as large
and even more labour intensive and profitable
than tobacco and sugar fields) were the source
of the work songs and laments that became the
Blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohBkHaHap8

smiley - bigeyes
~jwf~


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