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  2. Home of the Blues - Wikipedia

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    The song is an autobiographical account of Cash's unpleasant childhood. Cash has attributed his inspiration for this song as Home of the Blues record shop on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, which operated from the late 1940's until the mid 1970's. He used to hang out there, buy records and meet other musicians including the owner Ruben Cherry.

  3. Traditional blues verses - Wikipedia

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    Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.

  4. Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

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  6. Give My Love to Rose - Wikipedia

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    It was released in August 1957 as the B-side of the single "Home of the Blues" (Sun 279), which reached No. 5 in the Country & Western Chart. "Give My Love To Rose" reached No. 13 in the same chart. [1] Cash subsequently re-recorded the song. A version in 2002 brought him his fourth and final Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance ...

  7. Boll Weevil (song) - Wikipedia

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    Some of the lyrics are similar to "Boll Weevil," describing the first time and "the next time" the narrator saw the boll weevil and making reference to the weevil's family and home. "Mother of the Blues" Ma Rainey recorded a song called "Bo-Weavil Blues" in Chicago in December 1923, and Bessie Smith covered it in 1924, but the song had little ...

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  9. The House of the Rising Sun - Wikipedia

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    Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]