Rockaday Johnnie,

Thanks!!! I don't have that song! Didn't know Arvella did that one. Sure would like to get it--even if only in manuscript form!

Yes, I knew Arvella Gray. I've some good color slides of him playing his old National Guitar on Grand Ave. in Chicago outside the Grand & State Subway entrance (his favorite place to hit rush hour crowds for their change).

Arvella only had a thumb & 1 or 2 fingers on his left hand so he always played with a bottleneck on his finger. He was at the first University Of Chicago Folk Festival back in 1961. WFMT taped the Fest & put his "Goin' To Heaven Blues" on the air. I've still got that song on tape.

Goin' to heaven, gonna sit down on a chair, I'm goin' to heaven, gonna sit down on a chair, Gonna ask ol' Moses to sing me the walkin' blues!

Art Thieme