Tobacco Road

[gotham-cigar-museum]

The journey of the clear Havana started way back......on tobacco road!

What is a "tobacco road"??

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Sfh8LFMaw"]YouTube - Tabacco Road - Eric Burdon and the Animals[/ame]

 

[cigarguy71]

Very cool Nick.

 

[gotham-cigar-museum]

What can I say................I get inspired a couple of times a year and get creative......................sometimes! Most of the time I'm too damn busy!

 

[Jet-Rod]

Great song. I grew up listehing to the Animals great find on the "Tube":cbig:

 

[Soundwave13]

That's a great video - his voice has always had a way of hypnotising me...

 

[gotham-cigar-museum]

It is a great song and Eric Burdon does a great version, very soulful, of course Johnny & Edgar Winter do a great version of the song.......... but the Lou Rawls version was tops IMHO.

 

[gotham-cigar-museum]

Nick 'ol boy, you've gone off the deep end there laddie!

What the heck does this hogs......eh...whatchimacallit have to do with tobacco road??

 

[gotham-cigar-museum]

So they packed these big barrels with tobacco which they called hogsheads!

Why did they call it a hogshead?

'Cause of those folks across the pond me laddies, the Brits ! It was a unit of measure!

So these hogsheads were pulled by cows, horses, oxen or slaves from a port or a plantation to the tobacco factories...........the road along which these were pulled was called "tobacco road".

These 1,000 pound hogsheads made their own road 'cause they flattened anything in their path!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg04srhlUyA"]YouTube - Lou Rawls - Tobacco Road - 1963[/ame]

 

[Moro]

I will certainly enjoy these threads!

 

[Mitch]

That's cool stuff...