LOL, Hoot... That's whay I brought up the Chess Brothers 'cause I don't know squat about 'um... Yeah, I went out and bought the "Fathers and Sons" double LP when it came out and 'bout wore it out... It was my first real experience with the true blues and not like the Stones of Led Zepplin's interpretations of the blues... Well, of course there have been some croos-over blues players that most of us were familiar with like Jimmy Reed but "Fathers and Sons" was my into... But I never knew an "hoot" 'bout the Chess brothers and put them into the discussion so that maybe who had the skinny on them would put a few peas in the pot, so to speak...

Yo, G-Bucketeer... Yeah, you, me and HarpBoy did some nice stuff until HarpBoy got that life sentence... You know what I mean... I did talk to him briefly until the warden caught him and then the phone went dead...

Well, Hoot, I woulda helped ol' Muddy paint that wall, myself...

BTW, who was in the Stones who wrote the book about the Southern Bluesmen... Was it Keith Richards??? I can't rembemeber but when I was in Mississippi at Sherman's house (Yeah, the guy who gave/sold that geetar to Seasick Steve) they was talkin' about how that Stone stayed in the "Potato House" while he was there doing the research... Tehn they were talkin' about how that Stoner would go over to Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint and listen and play... Now Junior Kimbrough was one fine player and had him one of the last rural juke joints just outsidea Como, Ms. which had burned down before I ever made my firsy pilgrimage down there... I was able to do a little playin' with his son Kenny (darned good drummer) who was playing with Terry "Harmonica" Bean and Rev. Slick at the IBC...

As for the blues bein' the devil's music??? Well, heck yeah, it is... I was doin' this presentation the other night on a project before the town council and the folks before me were pitching a blue grass/old time music festival and so I got called up before they had gathered their stuff and left the room but used it as a humorous way to begin my presentaion by tellin' um what a nice job they had done and tellin' 'um that whne I lived in Richmond, Va. I played with an old time string band and so the guy gave me his card and said to give him a call to which I replied, "Sorry, I croosed over to the dark side 'cause all I want do is play the blues these days"... Well, that got a good laugh even though I suspect that none of the council folks knew anything about the "crossroads"...

John Sinclair, of "Free John Sinclair" fame has a blues radio station down south (maybe Lousiana) and I hear him a few year back at Common Ground in Maryland and he was talkin' about the "crossroads" and said that, inspite of the stories about Robert Johnson doing the deal with the devil it was more like Tommy Johnson, not Robert... I donno... I thought about doin' the deal myself a couple times but the devil wouldn't throw in that '50 Ford Coupe... Maybe he'll reconsider??? LOL...