I caught him in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, tonght. He's now 92 and, apparently, playing 100 dates a year.

He didn't say much, between: "Are you ready for the blues?" and: "Thank you very much", which was a disappointment, as I'd hoped he might tell us a bit about the Delta. Done enough of that, I suppose.

He finished with an uptempo blues, and then was handed an electric guitar for an encore of Sweet Home Chicago.

But it was his slide playing that I enjoyed. Not because it was exceptonal, but because he'd been there and I could pretend for a little while, as I listened to him, that so had I.

Yeah. The last of the original Delta bluesmen.