End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Feb 1995 to 7 Feb 1995

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There are 4 messages totalling 118 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. cakewalk (2)

 2. Bounced Mail (re cakewalk)

 3. subscribe SHANA WALTON



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Date:  Tue, 7 Feb 1995 23:59:34 -0500

From:  "Peter L. Patrick" <PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET>

Subject: Re: cakewalk



Now Mike, granted you might be a bit older than me (the original

"Johnny B. Goode" came out in Dec. 1957, nearly 2 years before I did!)...

But I've never heard of Chuck Berry doing the CAKE-walk, except maybe

when he was growing up in St. Louis. It was his DUCK-walk that drove

'em wild on stage and "deliver[ed] us from the days of old"...

    But for a cakewalk that can't be beat, check out Taj Mahal's

"Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff" (1972) for the guitar-

and-tuba duet on "Cakewalk into Town":

    "I had the blues so bad one time

    It put my face in a permanent frown

    But now I'm feeling so much better

    I could cakewalk into town

    I woke up feeling so good this morning

    I lay back down again..."

at which point decency demands that you get your own recording or

respond privately. No little kids in this song...

        --peter patrick



PS. I believe Huddie Ledbetter also recorded a cakewalk but I don't

know where. He learned directly from the minstrel tradition when it

was still going, 'course, not reviving it from near-death like Taj.