LIP RIPPER
624 posts
Sep 05, 2012
10:58 AM
|
I've become casual friends with a retired DJ here in town. He's told me stories of radio interviews with the greats while he was doing a blues radio program for NPR years ago. I ran into him at the bar the other night and he'd just gotten back from chi-town. He said he and his daughter were hanging out with Billy and that they'd been friends for a long time. Anyway I come back from the bathroom and he hands me his phone. I said who is this and he said Billy, talk to him. That really caught me off guard but we did talk harp for a little while. My buddy calls me a few days later and said that Billy had sent him a copy of the above for me. I just picked it up and when business gets out of the way I will give it a listen. Too bad it's sealed and not autographed.
LR
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2012 1:49 PM
|
atty1chgo
449 posts
Sep 05, 2012
12:56 PM
|
I talked to the same retired DJ about a month ago at Artis's Lounge (before it closed). I asked him about all of the interviews of bluesmen, and I think he said that he could not give up copies because of the possible rights of radio stations (some of them were done under the property rights of NPR) as well as the parties interviewed. Billy probably has his own copy. I asked Billy about it, and he told me that it was an interview done in the back seat of a car with Junior Wells present about 20 years ago or more.
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2012 12:57 PM
|
LIP RIPPER
625 posts
Sep 05, 2012
1:48 PM
|
The interviews on reel to reel are in this small air conditioned room along with his album collection just off his garage. Not really a garage anymore. He has a sort of a DJ's office in the corner wth his turntable and disc changer, sitting chairs which are mostly antique and recovered by his wife and it's more like a lounge. Hmm, I didn't see a reel to reel machine, I'll have to ask Dan about it. His story in itself is an interesting one.
LR
|
