Thanks, maeve...

Yeah, Archie Edwards was not only a barber but a very good blues player... Back in the 60's other blues player would come to his shop on Saturday and at 1:00 sharp he would quit playin' barber and start playin' blues...

This shop is way up in Northeast, Washington, D.C. where back then -- okay, as well as now -- white folks didn't go... But over the years white folks ventured up to the ol' barbershop on Saturday afternoons for the jams an' to be learnt up by folks who had been playin' it all their lives...

Well, there ain't many of the ol black blues guys that come 'round these days... Most have either died or got too old but there's still a few... N.J Warren is the real deal... He sounds like Lightin' Hopkins... I love him and call him "Dad" and I know he loves me back... We played a few "pay" gigs together... The last one wa at gthe Luray Caverns Festival and we pulled up in N.J.'s Lincoln and N.J. opens the trunk, pulls out his geetar case and in doin' so pulls out one of them quart water bottles which rolls down the parking lot... So I go catch up with it and look at it an you know how good shine don't look like water 'cauae of them little bubbles??? Well, trust me that I know water from shine and vice versa....

So I say to N.J., "Hey man, that's shine in there" and he looks at me and say "No" but with that in-toneation wherer we both know it's shine...

Nwevermind that... Here we're gettin' $500 to play 45 minutes an' N.J.'s cell phone ring right there in the middle of our set...

"Hello???"

Oh, I'm gonna miss the barber shop...

Sniff...

B~