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• Johnsson from WisconsinJJLC is about Muddy Waters who, as blues listeners know, went down to New Orleans to "get me a mojo hand".
  
  There is also a nod to "Aw, take me witcha man, when you go", a Little Walter shout from Waters' seminal "Louisiana Blues".
• Demento from TexasThere's more soul in New Orleans, and the "forest and the pines" are as likely a ref to East Texas, not far from New Orleans, as to anywhere in California.
• Jim from ChicagoThe song was about radio waves coming out of Chicago from WLS. See: VH1 Storytellers
• J from Lx, PortugalChicago is home to a special kind of blues. New Orleans is a city of recreation and sin, it's also home to a lesser known kind of blues.
  Both of these before Blagojevich and Katrina, of course.
  I like to think that Jesus left Chicago full of blues and headed down to N.O. to get himself some comfort? R&R? BBQ? Though he keeps working at each point in between.
  ZZ Top talk many times of honest, hardworking folk in their songs. Who's more honest and hardworking than the Lord?
• Jim from Pleasant Hill, CaWillie, as much as I'm weary of songs about drugs and other vices, that analysis makes more sense than some quirky angle on religion. The title character's name may be better pronounced Hey-Zeus. The line about "the forests and the pines" in CA always seemed cryptic, but it may refer to Humboldt or Mendocino Counties.
• Willie from Scottsdale, AzI have read the song is more about drug dealers than spirituality. In the early 1900s, many of the narcotics used in the South came from up North. The third stanza, "You might not see him in person /But he'll see you just the same /You don't have to worry /'Cause takin' care of business is his name." is not a way any bluesman ever referred to ol' J.C. And when the song is played live, the second verse about water & wine is always replaced with, "Took a trip down through __________ [insert concert city name] / He'll sure make you feel fine." Hardly a religious sentiment. In the least, it has a very deconstructive bent.

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