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In 1938, three years before his death, the legendary Jelly Roll Morton sat down to record a series of Library of Congress interviews with noted folklorist Alan Lomax, who called the results “a virtual history of the birth pangs of jazz as it happened in the New Orleans of the turn of the century.”Along the way, Morton elaborated on his narrative with various songs, including one he called “Winin’ Boy Blues,” a tune that contains more anomalies than a Salvador Dali canvas.You can start with the song’s authorship. Some credit Morton as its composer, perhaps as a musical tribute to himself. Others believe Jelly Roll heard it in his youth as a folk tune about the sportin’ life in his native Crescent City.What About the Title?Then there are the questions about that title. Transcripts of the original Lomax interviews preserve the song as “Winin’ Boy Blues.” Subsequent recordings, however, have called it “Whinin’ Boy,” based on what later listeners think they hear Morton actually saying in th...
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