Oooowie! I got me some major mudcat boogie:

My Secret Santa sent The Boarding Party's: "Too Far from the Shore."
Jerry Rasmussen's "Handful of Songs" also turned up in the mailbox.

A library card is a wonderful thing. I am spending some quality time with the series, "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues": A series of documentary films made by seven different filmmakers about the history of the blues. They contain terrific archival footage, much of it never seen before. There are some tapes recorded by John and Alan Lomax. The film about Chess Records in Chicago is particularly interesting, and one film takes place partly in Mali, in West Africa, exploring the African roots of blues music.

Elmer