WHERE THE SOUTHERN CROSSES THE DOG

Created on 16/06/2001
Latest update on 16/06/2001

Artist: Hans Theessink
Author: Hans Theessink
Label: Blue Groove
Year: 1997

"I'm going where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog" was part of the lyrics W.C. Handy noted in his diary while having his first blues experience in the Tutwiler, MS railway station in 1903 and I quote: "A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plucking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags, his feet peeped out of his shoes. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings in a manner popularised by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. His song too struck me instantly: Going to where the Southern cross the Dog. The singer repeated the line three times, accompanying himself on the guitar with the weirdest music I had ever heard." In those days the Yellow Dog line crossed the Southern Illinois railroad near Moorhead, MS, some 25 miles south of Tutwiler.

Covers:

2001:

Terry Evans

See also: Yellow Dog Blues.

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