Well, fir those of you who like/love Robert Johnson, you will like/love Johnny Shines even more... I don't know why he doesn't get more recognition... He, IMO, is equal to or even ebtter that Robert on alot of his stuff and plays purdy much the exact same style... It's almost as if they both learned from the same teacher... One of the best blues songs is one he wrote called "Jim String"... Ya'll listen to that song/story... Man, geese oh pete... This is the real blues...

And the late Jessie Mae Hemphill, who lived outside Como. Ms., is a real treat... Lotta that one chord north Mississippi groove... On a some of here songs she plays a one string diddlybow... Very cool...

Hey, and I'm just braggin' on the folks who play that Mississippi style blues... There's an entire different style blues... More finger pickin' and no bottleneck (slide) played in the Mid_Atalntic region coastal areas they call Piedmont Blues... Lotta real good ones... The late John Jackson... The late John Cephas who played with Phil Wiggins (Cephas in Wiggins)... I knew/know all them guys... Jammed a little with all of them here or there over the years... Then there was Archie Edwards of Washington, D.C.... He had a barbershop up in NE where balus jams occured every Saturday afternoon... He died in '98 but the folks just kept the rent up and continued to jam there every Saturday afternoon until about 2 years ago when they moved the barberchair and everything else to a new location where they continue the weekly jams... I was a reg there for about 7 years and know all them fine players: Elenor Ellis, Mike Baytop before he had his stroke, the late NJ Warren, Miles Spicer... Lotta folks... BTW, lotta folks like Mississippi John Hurt... Hey, he was more a Peidmont style player and he even moved to DC and jamedd at the barbershop and toured Europe with Archie...

Rambling again...

Hey, ya'll... This blues thread might make it to 100!!! That would make this ol' hillbilly proud... Sho nuff would...

B~