Barrelhouse-Pub/saloon mostly with live (barrelhouse) music. Also the name for the music style.
Barn door guitar-Primitive kind of a guitar. Some nails hammered into a wooden wall, connected with wire. No frets. No tuning pegs. Albert King learned playing this way. He played left-handed upside down, on his first guitar he removed the frets.
Black Cat Bone-Voodoo amulet for good luck (opposite of a black cat crossing your way)
Burnett, Chester-Same as Howlin' Wolf
Cat house-See sporting house
Chicken shack-Pub/saloon mostly visited by Afro-Americans. Often live music. Other words are juke joint, juke or jook.
Crescent City-Same as New Orleans
Crossroads-Not only two streets crossing, but also a point where you have to decide something important which might affect your destiny.
Gris-Gris-African amulet.
You can't live without, says the hoodoo man.
Hooch-Bootleged liquor
Hoochy Coochy Man-Voodoo preacher
John-The-Conqueror-Root- Voodoo amulet to keep your partner faithful
Juke joint-See chicken shack
King, Albert- a) Albert Nelson
b) the father of B.B. King
King, Riley Ben Same as B.B. (Blues Boy) King
Mojo-The paw of a rabbit. Voodoo amulet for good luck. Doesn't work always (keep my mojo working...)or a kind of spell a woman sends to the man she loves
Nelson, Albert-Same as Albert King
Sporting house- House for very special sporting (brothel)
Voodoo-Hoodoo, afr.: Wodun). Magic religion. Imported from Africa, religion of the slaves in the southern states.
[This message has been edited by jake sommers (edited 10-18-2000).]
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