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q. in R. Gordon Can’t Be Satisfied (2002) 58: I can't dance—quit tryin’: Just wasn't a hand to dance.at hand, n.1
q. in R. Gordon Can’t Be Satisfied (2002) 58: I can't dance—quit tryin’: Just wasn't a hand to dance. (con. early 1940s) q. in R. Gordon Can’t Be Satisfied (2002) 32: I got big enough to start playing for the white things [. . . .]. A white dance, you could play a waltz all night long.at thing, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied xix: He [...] pulled out a wad of money [...] and he waved the boodle over his head.at boodle, n.1
Can’t Be Satisfied 106: ‘Bo was a nice boy, just couldn’t read and write [...] Wouldn’t know his name in boxcar letters’.at boxcar, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 152: The cops thought the men were doubling up on the lady and threw them both in jail.at double up, v.1
Can’t Be Satisfied 14: The singer changes chords when he's ready and not according to formalistic demands. If he's getting down with one particular verse and wants to drag it on, he does.at get down, v.2
Can’t Be Satisfied 108: Otis Spann [. . .] played the eighty-eights with fluidity, his left hand rumble as agile as his right hand tinkle.at eighty-eight, n.1
Can’t Be Satisfied 72:
After flopping with his friends, Muddy sought out his relatives.at flop, v.
Can’t Be Satisfied 278: Muddy's first flop, at 3652 Calumet, is erased, a vacant lot in a row of stone buildings.at flop, n.5
Can’t Be Satisfied xix: He reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of money, the foreign funny money mixed in with some real American bills.at funny money, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 353: ‘[T]he real hustle I had was blowing the fucking harmonica. That was the real get over’.at get-over, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 132: Muddy wheeled to the hospital, but Pot was graveyard dead before they arrived.at graveyard dead (adj.) under graveyard, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 279: [H]e and Mojo Buford have been touring together, dueling with their harps.at harp, n.2
Can’t Be Satisfied 188: Muddy was making his worst records; the horns on ‘Short Dress Woman’ are heinous.at heinous, adj.
(con. mid-1950s) Can’t Be Satisfied 127: A wino in the neighborhood went up and down the streets with a cat on a leash and a recorder in his pocket [. . . .] Muddy would see him, say, ‘Hit it,’ and he'd blow a work song that sent the kids dancing.at hit it, v.
Can’t Be Satisfied 342: ‘The Blues Bag,’ a series running hot at the club.at run hot (v.) under hot, adj.
Can’t Be Satisfied 213: Paul and Pee Wee [...] drew guns and were circling each other when Muddy defused the situation: ‘First motherfucker that hits a lick is fired’.at hit a lick (v.) under lick, n.2
Can’t Be Satisfied 348: Howlin] Wolf dropped a real good lug on me. [...] The Wolf looked at me and he said, ‘Why don’t you take them wah-wahs and all that other shit and go throw it off in the lake’.at drop lugs on (v.) under lug, n.1
Can’t Be Satisfied 343: [O]nly Muddy was signed to Chess, so [the band] were free to step out.at step out, v.
Can’t Be Satisfied 140: ‘They got along okay but it was a lot of friction because of outside women’.at outside, adj.
(con. ealy 1960s) Can’t Be Satisfied 181: ‘[H]e had on a fine suit, a nice process, a little narrow mike, little narrow tie, sharp shoes, and he was sweating away’.at process, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 28: ‘He had a lot of trouble with his first wife, Mabel [...] He was running around on her‘.at run around (v.) under run, v.
(con. 1977) Can’t Be Satisfied 257: ‘Guys, those [guiitars] are really distorted, is that the way you want them?’ They both go, ‘Yeah! Yeah, that’s it, that’s the shit’.at shit, the, phr.
Can’t Be Satisfied 259: ‘We didn't get paid nothing. Shit no’.at shit, adv.
Can’t Be Satisfied 199: [Otis] Spann says, ‘Lucille, let me see my shit, baby.’ And she hands him his pistol.at shit, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 139: [T]he TV broadcasting a [...] shoot-'em-up.at shoot-’em-up (n.) under shoot, v.
Can’t Be Satisfied 218: ‘Muddy had the shorts—he was living week to week’.at shorts, the, n.2
Can’t Be Satisfied 159: Muddy had no band to hide behind, no club to table-hop.at table-hop (v.) under table, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 135: Bo was off chasing tail in Flint, Michigan.at tail, n.
Can’t Be Satisfied 155: [T]here was a young and beautiful waitress at Pepper's named Lois Anderson, and Muddy got together with her.at get together (v.) under together, adj.
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