Heard several songs with the term "Deep Elum,"where , who or what is “Deep Elum?”
It’s a rockin’ part of Dallas, TX.
Google.
And it is spelled Deep Ellum .
Here’s a site with more info on it. It is a really cool place, almost all of the concerts I’ve ever been to were at clubs there.
Having (until last year) been a Dallas resident for 13 years, I managed to avoid the raucous mess of west Elm St. for the most part, though people with the hankerin’ to get puking drunk, rowdy, and bang heads to music played loud enough to rupture eardrums seem to enjoy it. You can get just about anything tattooed on any part of your body there, as well as piercing tender parts of one’s anatomy.
Also: those into, ah, “recreational pharmaceuticals” can certainly get hooked up with just about any substance known to alter one’s brain chemistry.
The Grateful Dead performed (and recorded) a song called “Deep Elem Blues.” On this site , they explain some of the origin of the song:
The first recording of this song is normally credited to the Shelton Brothers in the early 1930s. They started as the Attlesey Brothers, and recorded “Deep Elm Blues” under the name “Lone Star Cowboys” in 1933. They then changed their name to the Shelton Brothers (after their mother’s maiden name) and recorded several further versions under the title “Deep Elem Blues.” It was subsequently covered by a variety of other artists, including the Prairie Ramblers in 1935, Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1950s, and Frank Wakefield in the early 1960s. I’m not sure whose version Jerry Garcia learnt the song from.
The title “Deep Elem” originates from Elm Street, which was the red-light district in Dallas.
The song is known variously as “Deep Elm Blues”, “Deep Elem Blues” and “Deep Ellum” blues. Several early blues luminaries spent time in and around Deep Ellum. Blind Lemon Jefferson moved there as a street musician around 1917, and met and played with Leadbelly there. Lightning Hopkins also played with Blind Lemon there. But it doesn’t seem that any of them had a hand in writing this song (even though Blind Lemon Jefferson is sometimes cited as the author).
Put your money in your shoes.
plnnr
May 10, 2004, 12:49pm
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Daddy’s got them Deep Elum blues…
They’ll put you on the rocks!
Thank you Thank you one and all ,for the replies.