kudzurunner
3899 posts
Feb 05, 2013
4:58 AM
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I attended that 1989 show at St. Ann's Church. James "Son" Thomas and Walter Liniger also played there, perhaps on that show. The World Music Institute sponsored some great Mississippi blues in NYC churches. I saw Carey Bell and his band at another of their shows.
Booba Barnes came by Dan Lynch during that visit and I got the chance to hang out briefly with him. I ended up visiting his juke on Nelson Street in Greenville later that year--a friendly juke on a dangerous street. Very nice guy. He could do a spot-on impersonation of Howlin' Wolf.
It's sad how many great players from the old days, guys I got the chance to see and often chat with, are dead and gone. Big Jack Johnson, Carey Bell, Junior Wells, Son Thomas, John Cephas, Bo Diddley, William Clarke, Paul Butterfield, Rev. Dan Smith, Paul Delay, John Jackson, Gary Primich, Pinetop Perkins, Muddy Waters, Jerry McCain (saw him in Alabama), Frank Frost, Sam Myers, Bill Dicey, Bob Shatkin, Little Sammy Davis........
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