[archy]

Good grief, so that's what happened to Sam...something about that is just so doggone cool...thanks!

You'll get a chuckle out of the way I met him. I was picking some off-the-wall tunes by request for tourists near the statue of W.C. Handy on Memphis' Beale Street, hitting everything from Presley tunes [*I can play it if you can sing it...*] Rufus Thomas Walkin' the dog to C.W. McCall's Wolf Creek Pass. This bunch of Memphis dock workers showed up and pitched in, and one of 'em grinned and asked me for Wooly Bully...and Lil Red Ridin' Hood... And JuJu Hand...and Jimmie Lee Riley's My Gal is RedHot!....

We kept that up for an hour or so before he fessed up to me who he was. One absolutely thoroughly nice guy.

-archy-/-

[eddie willers]

the statue of W.C. Handy on Memphis' Beale Street,

W.C. Handy
I'm rich and I'm fey
And I'm not familiar with what you played
But I get such strong impressions of your hey day
Looking up and down old Beale Street

Even she is the very epitome of a limousine liberal, I much prefer Joni's music to much of what is played on "Classic" Rock Stations.

[weegee]

Billy Lee Riley and Sam The Sham (and Gino Washington, and Elvis' sidemen, and Dale Hawkins, and Tony Joe White, and Joe "Ducktail" Clay) and others will be playing at a festival in New Orleans in 2 weeks. Sun Ra's Arkestra will close out the show each of the three days:

Ponderosa Stomp