Well, today on the CD player an old Charley Patton (King of the Delta Blues)to go with the two new arrivals I've been waiting for since September: Coco Robichaux (Lousiana Medicine Man) and Catfish Keith (Jitterbug Swing). On the turntable an old LP "The Bosses" (Big Joe Turner with a Basie small band).
The Patton because Sonny Black dedicated an instrumental steel solo of a Patton song to me at the club on Tuesday.
I heard about Coco from an American novel, probably a James Lee Burke (one of those where the Louisiana atmosphere is so well described you can hear the frogs croaking and see the old man on the porch in the rocking chair playing the blues on a beat up old National, using the neck of a Jax beer bottle as a slide).
Catfish was drawn to my attention by another member of the club and I heard him play on one of Paul Jones' BBC blues programmes. I'm trying to persuade the club to book him when he's here in the Spring.
RtS