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Stressing that the principal theme of the country blues, if not all blues, is sexual relationships, Oakley writes:Most frequently the core of the relationship is seen as inherently unstable, transient, but with infinite scope for pleasure and exultation in success, or pain and torment in failure. this gives the blues its tension and ambiguity, dealing simultaneously with togetherness and loneliness, communion and isolation, physical joy and emotional angiush. In Patton's b... MORE
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BENTON, Ark. - A band of hail, heavy rain and twisters pounded Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, damaging hundreds of homes, flooding roads and leaving thousands without power. The worst wasn't over for Arkansas, which braced Thursday for another hit. Some residents in the small north Arkansas town of Leslie were being evacuated because of flooding and the threat of mudslides. Workers were sandbagging in places to keep flood waters at bay. Roads were flooded and people were ... MORE
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In The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues Giles Oakley suggests that the Delta blues players often identified with the figure of the boll weavil in both its destructiveness and its homelessness, imagining its migrations as a search for a home. This variation on the theme by Charley Patton certainly bears this insight out. Here Boweavil is personfied and enters into dialogue with the singer. Patton's delivery of lyrics wasn't always the clearest, so here are the lyrics.... MORE
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