Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas

Index

Index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate photographs and illustrations. Abbott, Lynn, ix Abe and Pappy’s club, 51, 52, 61, 63, 151 Abramson, Dora, 67. See also Goldstein , Dora Abramson, Itzhak “Issie,” 68–69 Ackerman, Ben, 43 Acuff, Roy, 185 Adolphus Hotel, 162, 169, 175, 188 Adolphus Hotel Orchestra, 145–47, 147 African Americans black-owned businesses, 45–65 “colored carnivals,” 143 and “Deep Ellum Blues,” 19 and “Deep Ellum” name, 5 and the Jewish community, 15, 65, 66, 72, 76–78 and lynchings, 15, 46, 63, 212 military service, 49 and religious music, 119–27 See also segregation African Methodist Episcopal (AME) churches, 37 Ajax Music Shop, 62 Aladdin Laddies, 226n1 Albert, Don, 63, 144 Alex “Blues Artist” Moore Day, 140 Alex Moore in Europe, 134 Alexander, Alger “Texas,” 79, 106, 110, 115, 117, 118 “All I Want Is That Pure Religion,” 93 “All the Week,” 59 Allen, Jap, 145 Allen Chapel, 38 American Folk Blues Festival, 134 Ammons, Albert, 133 anti-Semitism, 74 Appalachian music, 177, 227n4 architecture of Deep Ellum and decline of area, 157–58 and Pittman, 37–44, 42 Pythian Temple, 38, 39, 40, 43–44, 218 Armstrong, Louis, 173 Arnspiger, Herman, 226n1 Arredondo, Benny “Chops,” vii, 157 Arthur, Charline, 187 Ashford, R. T., 57–58, 92, 101, 102, 107, 208 Ashlock, Jesse, 182 Atkins, Chet, 187 “Atlanta Blues,” 59–60 Attlesey, Joe, 19, 181 Attlesey, Robert, 19, 181 Autry, Gene, 188 B. F. Darrell School, 209 Back to Africa movement, 44 “Bad Luck Blues,” 85 Baker Hotel, 163–64, 169, 172 290 I N D e x “Baker Shop Blues,” 94 banjo music and blues, 108, 142 and “Deep Elem Blues,” 19–20 and Dixieland influence, 167–69 and Glinn, 60 and Graham, 178 and Jefferson’s guitar style, 98 and Kirkes, 171, 175, 184 and Montgomery, 158–62, 161, 167–75, 182, 187–88, 225n1 and Munnerlyn, 180 and New Orleans influence, 149 and Western swing, 72 banking, 49, 73, 77, 208 Banks, Nit C., 86 “Barn Dance,” 178 Barnum, Herbert, 169 Barons of Rhythm, 151 Barrasso, Fred, 54 barrelhouse piano, 127, 130, 137, 170 Barrow, Clyde, 12, 69, 192, 199 Basie, Bill “Count,” 147, 149–50, 152–53, 176 Bates, Deacon L. J., 93 Battle of the Guitars (1985), vii Baylor Hospital, 7 bear baiting, 35 The Bearkats, 188 The Beatles, 102 bebop, 2, 3, 14, 156 Bechet, Sidney, 173 Beck, Jim, 190–91 Bedford, Louis, viii, 7, 9–10 Bee, 47 “Beggin’ Back,” 93 Belew Twins, 187 Bell, Jimmy, 60 Bernet, Ed, 187 Biderman, Rose, ix Big “D” Jamboree, 158–59, 184–87, 189 The Big Show, 188 “Big Time” Vaudeville, 22 Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers, 171, 174, 182–84 Binion, Benny, 79, 192, 194–95, 200–201 Bishop, Joey, 187 “Black Ace” (Babe Kyro Lemon Turner), 114 Black Elephant theater, 49, 51 “Black Ghost.” See Richardson, Jack “Black Ghost” “Black Horse Blues,” 102 Black on White/White and Black (1989), 224n13 “Black Snake Dream Blues,” 84 Black Swan Music Shop, 62 “Black Wall Street,” 63 blackface, 220n3 Blackie Simmons and His Blue Jackets, 162 Blackwood, James, 188 Blackwood Brothers, 188 Blake, Eubie, 156 Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues (musical), 105 Blind Lemon Blues (musical), 105, 222n42 Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery, 105 “Blind Lemon’s Penitentiary Blues,” 97 “Blue” (lookout man), 13 “Blue Devil Blues,” 115, 149 Blue Devils, 147–50, 152 “Blues Come to Texas Loping like a Mule,” 86 “Blues in a Bottle,” 179 blues music and black Dallas, 56–61 and character of Deep Ellum, 2, 14, 17–29, 217 and contemporaries of Jefferson, 106–18 and cross-fertilization of music styles, 158–59, 162, 164–65, 170–75 and Dallas jazz, 141–43, 149, 154 and “holy blues,” 119–27 and Jefferson, 79–105 piano blues, 128–40 291 Index and the recording business, 191 and street music, 210 and Texas fiddle music, 179, 181–82, 184–85 See also specific artists Blues Who’s Who (Groom), 96 Bob Wills Ranch House, 190 Bogan, Henry, 180 Bohemian music, 177 Bolding, Frank, 192 “Boll Weevil Blues,” 93 bombings, 200 Bonner, Moses J., 178 boogie-woogie, 2, 127 Booker, Adam, 119 bookie joints, 193. See also gambling Bookman, Lovey, 130 “Booster Blues,” 84 bootlegging, 12, 89 Bosh-McGaughey, Lucille, ix, 14 Bost, Kay, ix Boyd, Bill, 171, 174, 182–84, 188 Boyd, David, 121 Boyd, Jean A., ix Boyd, Jim, viii, 72, 171...