Heard a bunch of great musicians at the Augusta Heritage Blues Week — John Cephus and Phil Wiggins are MUCH better live than on CD; John Jackson is amazing — basically flat-picks with his thumb while playing melody with index and middle fingers; three women who form the group Saffire — all excellent individually and just dynamite together; Paul Geremia, who is one of the most amazing pickers I've come across in years. Can slow down and disect virtually ANYBODY's picking style for teaching purposes, and then put all kinds of licks into his own stuff. It was worth the tuition just to watch him for the week.

Lots of others, but one harp player Joe Filiato (Sp?)who was just astounding. With a simple little 10-hole blues harp, he could get a bass run going down and a treble run going up simultaneously — amazing! I only heard him once in concert, and that for only abou8t 15 minutes, but he was a standout.

david