Mississippi Jack route to New Orleans. Jacky begins to market her own patent medicine consisting of an alcoholic tincture of opium (better known as laudanum) and Kentucky bourbon, which she markets during medicine shows. Most patent medicines of the time were made up with similar ingredients and similar lavish claims for their efficacy. Use of these compounds was widespread and unregulated. The crew encounter a secret abolitionist running a slave-selling scam in which the "slave" is sold, and then escapes to be sold again and again. Similar plots were sometimes used to trick runaways into cooperating with a sale which would turn
New Looks from an Old Lover The Single was distributed on a vinyl 7 inch, 45 rpm, phonograph record and is from the 1983 album "New Look", which hit #13 on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums chart, released on vinyl LP and Cassette tape. The song was also released on several other B. J. Thomas albums including: "Wind Beneath My Wings" in 1995 (Compact disk and Cassette tape), "The Best of B.J. Thomas: New Looks and Old Fashioned Love" in 2000 (Compact disk) and as an acoustic arrangement in duet with Etta Britt on, "The Living Room Sessions", in 2013, on Compact disk and Digital download.