On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 07:44:24 -0600, "Mike Pearce"
> wrote:

>"blake murphy" wrote in message
>news
>>
>> nope. o.k, ask rob if he knows elmore james.
>>
>
>Blake:
>
>I've played slide guitar for a long time. Years ago I decided to start
>fronting my own band, or play solo, so that I could play exactly what I
>wanted. When I was preparing the set list for the first gig of my own band I
>ended up with three sets of thirteen songs each. After I had the set list
>together I counted the Elmore James songs and there were thirteen in total.
>So 1/3 of the songs I chose were Elmore songs. I probably listen to Elmore
>James as much as anybody in that style, except maybe Hound Dog Taylor. Of
>the electric players Wolf, Elmore, Muddy and Hound Dog Taylor are probably
>my favorites.
>
>-Mike
>
i haven't listened to hound dog taylor in a while. i had a couple of
his things on vinyl.

are you a chicago boy?

your pal,
blake