Bottomfeeder,

It was Johnny who introduced me to the Blues. Yeah, a cross-eyed rail thin albino is about as far as you can get from Howlin' Wolf. But his live "It's My Own Fault" is still the finest electric Blues tune I've ever heard. But it was his acoustic stuff that made me realize that perhaps you didn't need to be at "11" to play blues. His covers of "Kind Hearted Woman", "Broke Down Engine", "Goin' Down Slow", his own "Dallas" are as good as anything that I've ever heard from the original Delta guys.

Let's not forget Keith Richards, Brian Jones and those guys. They've done some wonderful blues, hell they've even done some wonderful country.

Can a 20 year old Jewish guy from Minnesota sing the Blues? Check out the first Dylan album. Brilliant versions of "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", "House of The Risin' Sun", "In My Time Of Dyin'", "Fixin' To Die". He was the real deal.