Oh my, Win Strake. Synchronicity strikes again. Over the weekend I was replaying his LP, reminiscing about him on the OTSFM stage, gesticulating cane in one hand.

Enormous man, deep bass voice, a real Chicago fixture.

"I'm back home, and I thank the Lord,/ I'm back home in the 43rd Ward."

You have to know Chicago politics to get it; it is (was?) the only independent ward.

and I have a special fondness for "Night Rider's Lament," for a variety of reasons, not least of which how beautiful it is out here.

MA