Re: [Harp-L] "Fattening Frogs For Snakes"...whats that all about?!?!?

["Nate in the Blues Room" <thebluesroom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bill, have ordered the Little Walter book, looking forward to it.

Nate


On 2/22/06, billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the snakes are the guys in the record biz who constantly took advantage of
> these early blues artists. sbwII finally got wise later in his career. the
> expressions means that someone is doing all the work (fattening frogs) for
> the benefit of someone else who gets the prize (snakes). These artists wrote
> the songs, lived the hard lives that motivated them, but were ultimately cut
> quite short in the profits that were generated by them (at least while they
> were alive).
>
> if you want more info read some of the great books out there like the
> howlin' wolf or little walter biographies.
>
> Bill Hines
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