Friday, 1/18/13

three takes

“Driving Wheel,” AKA “Driving Wheel Blues” (R. Sykes)

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells (BG, guitar; JW, harmonica and vocals; Jimmy Johnson, guitar; Dave Myers, bass; Odie Payne, drums), live, Portugal (Algarve Jazz Festival), 1978

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Junior Parker, 1961

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Roosevelt Sykes, 1936

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lagniappe

reading table

[I]t is out of adolescents who last a sufficient number of years that life makes old men.

—Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (translated from French by Ian Patterson)