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We dont usually accept these submissions. But this was, er, priceless.

I was driving around tonight and heard some great music on the car radio. I thought it might be Little Walter. It was Sugar Ray Norcia doing Walter's Mean Old World.  Turns out there is a tribute record to Little Walter just out…it was recorded live and includes Billy Boy Arnold (a great player who was contemporary with Walter, and who doesnt lay down recording tracks too much), the great Charlie Musselwhite,  Sugar Ray, and others.   Ray is from Providence and had a band with Ronnie Earl way back, and has just gotten better and better. The cool thing about the concert/recording is that all these guys were able to just riff on Walter as homage – other nights somebody might say they were copping riffs – but the Blues Pope gave the absolution here. Little Walter would have been 80 two weeks ago, if he hadn’t been beaten up in an alley a long time ago (the 60s).Sigh. I heard this on the Holly Harris Sat Night Blues show on WUMB. She was and still is a really great DJ...

This is a version of Sunnyland Train that John Sinclair recorded with Ted Drozdowski. He took some from the Sunnyland Blues and mixed with the great Robert Palmer. I am more partial to a version he did that was produced by genius Andre Williams (Jailbait). This is a version of Sunnyland Train that John Sinclair recorded with Ted Drozdowski. I am more partial to a version he did that was produced by genius Andre Williams (Jailbait). http://www.amazon.com/Sunnyland-Train/dp/B008PSSFVU/

On a sunny Derby Day Milwaukee the East Side up by the pagoda-looking gas station around 1971 got lost got lost just a few blocks from home. Then, what happened? The Milwaukee River ran like serpin-turpen-tine.... Click to read the rest of the poem.