On the road

[Richard Ryan]

Famous also as the subject of Joni Mitchell's "Furry Sing the
Blues"....which, unsurprisingly, he hated:

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/joni-mitchell/furry-sings-the-blues.html


On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lit scholar Shelley Brivic says that the earliest use of the phrase 'on the
> road' referring
> to the practice of rambling without a definite goal is in "Kassie Jones
> part 2"
> (1928) sung
> by Furry Lewis, bluesman, most famous mayhaps for "Stick with me Baby, I'll
> turn
> your money green"
> [a song I've loved since i was poor].....and who was--should have been?---
> known
> to Pynchon's circle of musician friends....
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-- 
Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
                                --Robert Frost
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