Dem blues is still new and being discovered.  Kind of like kids 
discovering the oldies stations, only deeper, more primal, the source.  
I know nothing about the blues, except that I seek it out and I love it.

-jc



On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 11:03  PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I thought he was dead; I saw him in the 60's and he was rocking it 
> then in his 60's
> then  late  last night just under a perfect Delta moon ; the crowd 
> hushed and a diminitive bespectled man steped up to the outdoor piano  
> and joined  a long set of barrel house blues  that got everybody up 
> and the ground moving in a sweat known only in this part of the planet
> Pine top Perkins at 93 yrs old pounded and tickled the ivories at the 
> Mississippi cross roads of hwys  49 and 61  of Clarksdale in two sets 
> leaving us awed  foot sore and waiting for morning  with a renewed 
> faith that dem blues aint dead Pyrate
>
>
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