Yup Mted, and you could go back a little further to "Floyd's guitar blues" with the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Some say it was THE first electric guitar record period.

Course when you're talkin' about blues it's all speculation isn't it? Remember that W.C. Handy swore on a stack of bibles that he INVENTED blues...and Perry Bradford swore even louder that Handy was a Liar..and of course let's not forget that that Jelly Roll Morton told Lomax that HE invented Jazz. Alan may have believed him.

The downside of hitting 50 is obvious, but the upside is I got to hear and meet so many wonderful musicians before they passed. The finest memory of my life? Reverend Gary Davis singing "Death Don't Have No Mercey" under the stars in 1967. He was incandescent!

Rick