Bob thoroughly enjoyed an all-too-brief chat with 'Tadge' as he called him at the BBC2 Folk Awards, but long enough to relate his own 'discovery' of American blues in pre-war England. He'd bought a box of second hand 78s in Brighton attracted by the unusual names and titles. Listening to Sleepy John Estes singing Married Woman Blues and Drop down Mama later that day on his wind-up Columbia gramophone influenced his musical interests for the rest of his life and he became a devoted blues fan until the day he died. At his memorial we played Son House's Death Letter not for any morbid reason or clumsy sense of aligning it to the recent event, but simply because it was his favourite blues.