Bobert (& all),

John Sinclair lived in New Orleans for many years and was a volunteer DJ on local community radio station WWOZ for most of that time. About a year ago, he relocated to Amsterdam where he is operating some kind of project called "Radio Free Amsterdam." He was back in town a few weeks ago, using the 'OZ studios (both on and off the air) to create some content for his new project.

John has released several CDs under the title "John Sinclair and the Blues Scholars," consisting of his spoken-word/poetry stuff delivered to the accompaniment of a very decent blues band. If you want to look it up and maybe make a purchase, I'd recommend the most recent album as the best of the lot. John's blues poetry is really storytelling, very detailed and very pointed ~ great stuff.

I became barely acquainted with John over his years here, but wouldn't claim to know him well. Our wives are closer friends than we are (which is the case with a whole lot of people in my wide circle of vague acquaintances).