Just reflecting

[Lightning Rod]

when I was a teenager I used to listen to a radio show from WRR in Dallas
midnight they would play the blues
often it would be authentic native Texas blues like Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Later in my career, I got to meet both of those oldtimers. I played with Mance (it was a bitch because he played everything in Bb which is an awkward key for the flute)

I just met Lightnin' Hopkins once at a club where I played in Dallas called Mother Blues. He was into his seventies by this time and getting a bit feeble. One of the local musicians that was in his pick-up band told me, "Lightnin' just makes the changes when he feels like it."

That's the blues, baby

[STUPID BOB]

I'm guessing I was opening for him there, like I always did?

STUPID BOB