On the road

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Very interesting. I have encountered the name "Furry Lewis" quite often 
in the last couple of months (while reading up on the Memphis scene 
after Alex Chilton's death). Lewis seems to have been an inspiration for 
many people.

And that is "Kassie Jones", not "Casey Jones"?

See also the wonderful "It Came From Memphis" by Robert Gordon.

Thomas


Am 03.01.2011 02:39, schrieb Mark Kohut:
> 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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