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  • Basin Street Blues
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  • A Bourbon drink. * Contributed by The Bartending School
  • "Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. It was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928. The famous verse with the lyric "Won't you come along with me/To the Mississippi..." was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden. The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter. It became a red light district in 1897.[1]
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  • A Bourbon drink. * Contributed by The Bartending School
  • "Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. It was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928. The famous verse with the lyric "Won't you come along with me/To the Mississippi..." was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden. The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter. It became a red light district in 1897.[1]