A Conversation for Down where the Southern Cross the Dog: The Beginnings of the Blues
Indigo is a shade of blue
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Started conversation Dec 16, 2011
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
~jwf~
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