This is from the Hot Tuna: Live at the New Orleans House album.
From what I've heard about blues lingo, salty dog means horny man. Candyman is of course someone who treats his girl with the bread he brings home, and it takes a lot of guts to admit you are a candyman and then nonetheless break up a relationship over it, but it couldnt have been put more beautifully than this song.
"Candyman, been here and gone" reads like the markings on the tombstone of this relationship, which has him whipped running to the corner to "get the baby some beer". I think the repetition of "running" is on par with how we wishes he was just "sitting" on his candy stand, which may mean the wallet in his back pocket.
This is from the Hot Tuna: Live at the New Orleans House album.
From what I've heard about blues lingo, salty dog means horny man. Candyman is of course someone who treats his girl with the bread he brings home, and it takes a lot of guts to admit you are a candyman and then nonetheless break up a relationship over it, but it couldnt have been put more beautifully than this song.
"Candyman, been here and gone" reads like the markings on the tombstone of this relationship, which has him whipped running to the corner to "get the baby some beer". I think the repetition of "running" is on par with how we wishes he was just "sitting" on his candy stand, which may mean the wallet in his back pocket.