In article >, Michael Odom
> wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:27:46 GMT, blake murphy >
> wrote:
>
> >muddy is the king. rob listen to any other chicago guys? howlin'
> >wolf is almost as great. 'the london howlin' wolf sessions' is a
> >little smoother than the work with his own band. all the english
> >white-boy bluesmen are on it. i used to like taj, but i heard he was
> >once a veterinarian.
>
> I get the feeling it's very good to be Taj. Have you heard his
> Hawaiian record? Can't recall the title right now, but it's great
> fun. I saw him in 73; he's even more fun live. Or he was then,
> anyway.

I've seen him live, too. Agreed - fun time. "Big Legged Women are Back
in Style Again" -- or something like that. LOL!
>
> Aside from John Lee Hooker (who was surely the coolest man alive in
> the years between Miles Davis' death and his own), my favorite
> bluesman is Lightnin' Hopkins. I met him in the parking lot of a
> blues club in Dallas the night of my 21st birthday. I was so star
> struck I was incapable of making anything like genuine conversation
> unfortunately.

Kinda reminds me of us meeting John Denver after a concert before he was
really big. Rob asked him if he (Rob) could feel his calluses. Honest
to God.

> While I was inside, Lightnin' asked my girlfriend whether I was a good
> man. She said I was okay. He said "Well, you ought to marry him,
> then."
>
> What could we do? One year later we were wed.

Seems reasonable to me. You gotten any better than okay?

> modom
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