The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165973   Message #3987172
Posted By: Will Fly
13-Apr-19 - 04:02 AM
Thread Name: Rock Island Line ...
Subject: RE: Rock Island Line ...
Watched it last night - great fun, and Billy Bragg was a good interviewer and presenter. Nice to see and hear Chas McDevitt and some others from the period.

The first blues record I ever heard was Leadbelly singing "Grasshoppers in my pillow", his take on "Leaving Blues", and the notes that made me itch to get a guitar were the opening guitar notes to Donegan's "Battle of New Orleans".