Thankyou Elmore for replying. I bought the book (£12 in England) so i agree a bit steep, considering one review was crap. However i am suddenly consumed with curiosity about the man.

I've p[layed his songs wrong most of my life - learned from Ramblicg Jack and a Scottish guy called Hamish Imlack - great players in their own way, but not really in his way - if you get my meaning.

I've only just obtained an album where he's audible. i had an an awful album (only cost two quid) but it was just white noise with BLJ yowling unhappily and the odd guitar phrase.

The new album is clear as a bell and his guitar sound sounds a bit like me. So I'm intrigued.

Thanks for getting back to me Elmore - if its still abit of a stretch financially - I'll post the book to to you when I've finished it. it should arrive tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to knowing just what stirred within his soul to write something like 'Lectric chair Blues.
The Texas historical society have a short but quite good essay online about BLJ.

Many years ago I read Sam Charters comment about hin being 'fat dirty and depraved'. Persoanlly I don't care if my grave is kept clean, they can vapourise me in a chemical waste dump (once I'm dead) as far as I'm concerned. But fat, dirty or depraved....that guy had the soul of a poet, and a great one at that.