It has been acknowledged by the blues foundation hall of fame which noted its popularity among rock as well as blues musicians.
Down on the killing floor chicago.
It s true that many southern african americans who flooded north during the great migration found work on the blood slick killing floors of chicago meat packing slaughterhouses.
Black and white workers in chicago s packinghouses 1904 54 write a review feb 21 2008 amy cummings rated it it was amazing.
With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford.
The killing floor stars damien leake apocalypse now as a real life mississippi sharecropper named frank custer who heads to chicago in 1919.
Called one of the defining classics of chicago electric blues killing floor became a blues standard with recordings by various artists.
Chicago s packinghouse workers 1894 1922 meticulously researched grounded firmly in extensive oral history and archival sources and carefully argued down on the killing floor will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in race and labor eric arnesen author of waterfront workers of new orleans.
He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow african americans in the union though many including his best friend view him as a sell out.
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The song s title refers to the active area of a slaughterhouse.
A reference to the location in the slaughterhouse where the stock was killed and then butchered hence a scene of danger difficulty bloodshed etc.
During world war i a poor black southerner travels north to chicago to get work in the city s slaughterhouses where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Down on the killing floor.
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So it s understandable why even wikipedia reports that howlin wolf recorded killing floor in 1964.
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He takes a job as a meatpacker in the city s notorious union stock yards and while custer and other black workers are initially ostracized by their white counterparts he ends up working.
From old blues songs particularly the chicago style.
Down on the killing floor.
Directed by bill duke.
