Comin' from Chicago, it was hard not to get the blues---musically or otherwise. Little Walter, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters---later the white kids found it the way Bix & Hoagy learned from Afro-American giants of jazz.----Kids like Butter- and Bloom- (the 2-Fields) ;-). Jim Schwall, Corky Siegel, Barry Goldberg, Steve Miller, Charlie Musselwhite, Nick Gravinitis. Only a few blues were in my repertoir, but they usually popped out when I was in the appropriate mood. Sure did enjoy being with friends, drinking boilermakers and listening to ALL OF THE ABOVE (except Bix & Hoagy) at Big John's on Wells St. in Chi---mid-60s.Art Thieme