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    Registered User Dave Hicks's Avatar
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    Default Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

    Vocal, guitars, mandolin, bass and harmonica. (Mando is not the main focus, but it's upfront some of the time.)





    Pre-blues tune, first found on recordings and in print at the start of the 20th century. Many floating verses have been put to this melody by many performers. I picked a few I liked.
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    Nicely done all the way around. Channeling some Dawg with that trem. Really supports the song nicely!

    FWIW, WC Handy published Memphis Blues in 1912. My great grandfather L. D. Joel opened the Colored Airdome Theater and then booked for the Globe in LaVilla (now part of Jacksonville), FL in 1909. In the summer of 1911, Fedinand Morton came to town, and stayed a bit. He gigged the scene at the Globe, and then a tent show. He left that at the end of the season to tour nationally, better recognized as "Jelly Roll." When Handy named his tune, he was already drawing on a well established, wide spread tradition both for the music, and the title.
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    Unintentional duplication removed. Mods, feel free to delete.
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    Default Re: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

    I really enjoyed your interpretation of that old song, Dave.
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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