Why should you be shocked? we are all getting older by the minute.

I am just pleased to know that Buddy is still able to cut the mustard and live and enjoy a comfortable life. It pleases me more as I am one of the team that brought Buddy to Europe for his first tour in February 1965, He was hardly -if at all- known at the time this side of the Atlantic and was recommended to us by Willie Dixon. Within months he was back in Europe on the Folk Blues Festival tour and It was about a year later that he was back as part of a jazz festival in the section featuring various guitarists playing differing styles. The British "rockers" got to hear him and as they say "the rest is history".
I still have the recording of him playing my acoustic guitar at our flat in '65 and photographs of him in our kitchen when he was really cooking - gumbo that is - he is as good a cook as he is an entertainer.

Good luck Buddy and Many Happy Returns for July 30th.

Hoot