[Harp-L] Re: Piedmont Blues Question

[James Thurgood <jthurgood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:50:22 -0700
From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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When Brownie McGhee or Blind Boy Fuller starts a solo
or calls for one,
 
they often utter the phrase "Play it a long time."

Is there some kind of slang meaning in this phrase, or
does it simply
 mean 
Take a solo?

Ken


My well-informed suspicion is that it originally
meant, "I'm going out back to smoke a reefer; cover
for me, man."

- thurg


       
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