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Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:57:25 -0800
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At 10:27 PM 3/28/00 -0500, bob scheetz wrote:
>...the derivation (of boojwa) i had in mind
>was leadbelly's "boojwa town"
>...vastly more expressive,
>precisely for being so indecorus a locution,
>than the frenchie original, no?
 
Except for, Mr. Ledbetter did not feel it cramped his style to use
language straightforwardly, and entitled that song "Bourgeois Blues."
For my money, Ry Cooder owns that tune now. -T.

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