Yes - I saw it first time round and then a little of it again late last night (on video) after our local session.

Keef did ramble - as he always does - but there were a few nuggets of interest among all the waffle.

I've also just been re-reading Levon Helm's autobiography, and it's fascinating to read about the appreciation of black music by many members of the white community in and around his part of the Mississippi delta (Turkey Scratch) in the '40s and '50s. Muddy Waters lived just along the road from them and was a popular player, for example. And while there was some gathering among the KKK fraternity, there was also a lot of white histility to that movement among the farmers.

My personal take on the music is that, as a format for musical expression, it's wonderful. As a white, Anglo-Saxon guitarist of a certain age, I always remember that, while I can use the format, it would be utterly stupid for me to sing some of the stuff with any ambition to "authenticity". And I think some of the talking heads in the programme made the same point.

I do recall having a jam with Champion Jack at a pub in the East End in the late '60s - not a man to mess with but welcoming to us "poor whites" (!)...