Blind Lemon Jefferson used the term "Booga Rooga" to refer to a guitar bass figure that he used in "Match Box Blues".Price, Sammy, What Do They Want? (autobiography), 1990, University of Illinois Press. Jefferson may have heard the term from Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, who played frequently with Jefferson. Lead Belly, who was born in Mooringsport, La., and grew up in Harrison County, Texas, in the community of Leigh, said he first heard boogie-woogie piano in the Caddo Lake area of northeast Texas in 1899.Borneman, Ernest, Chapter 2. "Boogie Woogie" (pp. 13–40), in Sinclair Traill and The Hon Gerald Lascelles (eds), Just Jazz, published 1957 for Peter Davies Ltd by The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey, UK. He said it influenced his guitar-playing. Lead Belly also said he heard boogie-woogie piano in the Fannin Street district of Shreveport, Louisiana. Some of the players he heard were Dave Alexander, who recorded for Decca in 1937 as "Black Ivory King", and a piano player called Pine Top (not Pine Top Smith, who was not born until 1904, but possibly Pine Top Williams or Pine Top Hill).Russell, Ross, "Illuminating The Leadbelly Legend", Down Beat, August 6, 1970, Vol. 37, No. 15. Lead Belly was among the first guitar-players to adapt the rolling bass of boogie-woogie piano.
Blind Lemon Jefferson used the term "Booga Rooga" to refer to a guitar bass figure that he used in "Match Box Blues".Price, Sammy, What Do They Want? (autobiography), 1990, University of Illinois Press. Jefferson may have heard the term from Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, who played frequently with Jefferson. Lead Belly, who was born in Mooringsport, La., and grew up in Harrison County, Texas, in the community of Leigh, said he first heard boogie-woogie piano in the Caddo Lake area of northeast Texas in 1899.Borneman, Ernest Chapter 2 "Boogie Woogie" (pp. 13–40), in Sinclair Traill and The Hon Gerald Lascelles (eds), Just Jazz, published 19.57 for Peter Davies Ltd by The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey, UK. He said it influenced h,is guitar-playing. Lead Belly also said he heard boogie-woogie piano in the Fannin Street district of Shreveport, Louisiana. Some of the players he heard were Dave Alexander, who recorded for Decca in 1937 as "Black Ivory King", and a piano player called Pine Top (not Pine Top Smith, who was not born until 1904, but possibly Pine Top Williams or Pine Top Hill).Russell, Ross, "Illuminating The Leadbelly Legend", Down Beat, August 6, 1970, Vol. 37, No. 15. Lead Belly was among the first guitar-players to adapt the rolling bass of boogie-woogie piano.