So great to hear your stories, Bobert. Puts it in context.

That Touch the Blues video site has more stories than straight music. I like the one that comes up on the "When" link: "When not to play the blues". Pinetop Perkins says, "I talk to the Lord about it all the time, hoping he'll forgive me." Says he keeps the seventh day holy, doesn't play the blues, or go fishing... Then he plays "His truth goes marching on"... with wonderful automatic blues stylings.

This morning on NPR, Eden Brent, a comfortably-off white Mississippi girl who apprenticed to Delta piano player Abie "Boogaloo" Ames, who dubbed her "Little Boogaloo".

~ Becky in Tucson