“You know I told you I do not play no rock n roll. But it kinda sound like it.” – Mississippi Fred McDowell, Shake ‘Em On Down

The colloquial phrase “put a sock in it” to tell someone to stop talking has an origin in old Gramophone players — when they needed to muffle the music, people would stick a sock or something soft in the old horned cone speaker.

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