A reader of this blog has sent a comment (published underneath the recent post about Blind Lemon Jefferson) that includes the URL to a terrific, albeit mysteriously authored, blogpage. It's about the couplet with the first line 'I'm standin' here wonderin' will a matchbox hold my clothes', and discusses it in relation to Jefferson and not only on to Carl Perkins, Sam Cooke and others but also backwards from Jefferson to the great early blues women, from whose songwriterly records so many of the pre-war guitarist-singers (and pianist-singers) took bits and pieces of lyric to make new songs. The URL in question is:
http://heartonastick.blog-city.com/matchbox01.htm
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