[Ads-l] "The Downchild Blues Band"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 4 04:31:56 UTC 2017


This Canadian group is very likely to have taken its name from the blues
song, by the other Sonny Boy Williamson, with the title "Down Child."
However, if you listen to the record, you hear that what Williamson
actually sings is "Down there" and not "Down child."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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