Where the Southern Crosses the Dog ......

 

Nuestro homenaje en forma de portada a este significativo tren , también conocido como Yellow Dog por numerosos Bluesmen de la época. 

Como ya sabéis todas nuestras portadas tienen una permanencia temporal ....... en nuestro blog , de esta forma pretendemos dinamizar el mismo con distintas imágenes todas ellas relacionadas , a ser posible con el mundo del Blues. 

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Description

Where the Southern Crosses the Dog The Southern was a railroad. It was later bought by the Illinois Central. (The fabled City of New Orleans ran on Southern rails, and for many in the Delta those rails were the road out of poverty, heading north to Chicago--spreading the blues along the way.) Another railroad, the Yazoo Delta, was more popularly known as the Yellow Dog. The Southern tracks crossed the Yazoo Delta railroad in Moorhead, MS. W.C. Handy was at the train depot in this northern part of the Delta, and he overheard another guy singing a song about "going where the Southern cross the Dog." Handy (who lived in Clarksdale) had never heard harmonies like this. This is the first documented use of blues harmonies. (What's more, the guy was playing guitar using the back of a knife as a slide--first slide guitar ever to make it into the history books.) The blues had been forming in a rich stew of influences up and down the Delta. This was their first contact with someone who wrote it down. Created for the 2008 Columbus Blues Alliance Tradfest.