night it's always fun playing for kids especially kids who'd rather be watching sponge bob i get it i have a six year old myself and know m how the mighty have fallen and its history you don't have too many tricks as a guitar player only thing i get i'd play inversions whatever that means a fancy way of saying i play the same three chords everybody else plays but up on a little more interesting ways the play i'm used to you know people shouting throwing things being downright obnoxious and rude i did this is culture shock ok thank you out he was a dear friend he it was a very wonderful favor on his part to produce my record but we did this album song and it was a song i wrote with a friend of mine i used to live in japan a long time it was like one can of spaghetti three bottles of wine that was sort of his ratio for that kind of work you know anyway these lyrics in around him i needed something for the record filler right and then the song kind of tumbled out very just so much i think i've met i thought i met every blues player in vermont that i met charlie and i realize there's more of you out there than i thought that's a good deal it's a conspiracy  i'm sorry that's not the only weird this is a tune from liberia and this is this is sort of the death murder ballad part of the set so bear with me like that i feel like i'm in pretty good company richmond cemetery right behind me albert sort of gets known and popular song and she she she gets off she doesn't she doesn't know she gets acquitted she doesn't go to prison for killing him and then promptly moves apparently to portland oregon from saint louis where she becomes an upstanding so much one of the things i learned living in memphis as long as i did was that it's it's not about perfection it's about feel so forgive me there's no perfection in what i do and hopefully there's a little feel if not well i don't know i guess i'm sorry i cannot share that story and you remember that's a good thing story he apparently he was supposed to be one of the planes that flew out on nine and he caught the next flight out and he remembers watching that plane i forget which one it was watching it fly out you know never it never to come back i mean he was but i guess it's not going to happen tonight little homage to my my late your grandma told this story before i wrote it one of the songs i wrote without touching the guitar purse i was stuck in a car driving ten hours to my my grandmother's funeral and after a couple of hours of playing that of like you know the heck with it if i get it i got it i got to roll down the window and you know and so i've just started humming the myself in this thing fell out and weirdly enough i remembered at the last minute as i was making the record with dickinson and of course he said can't put any songs after that it's about your grandma that's how he made records frazier charlie has become an instant friend so i was on charlie's blues for breakfast show like of course i've been waiting for this moment in the blue area who doesn't live in mike's ever since teaches your rock n roll history jazz history spiritual gospel song history this history that i can't seem to get my head out of the history so it's already started with a chuck berry song i'm going to play a buddy holly song my students my there would be yes we changed to done burned down then technically it's a new song so we don't have any royalties in memphis many was amazing anyway and she she was actually from walls mississippi just south of sapa memphis there in north northwestern mississippi people used to think she was born in algiers louisiana but it really looks like she was born in walls if you do the census records that's where she and her family are early on so and of course then she runs away by around the age of fourteen joined the circus my has to get out of the house is a chain of her skull even trunk where i think she really lays out what actually happened to her wasn't pretty she had to get out of that house runs away and upon bill street with her first husband kansas joe they get discovered by columbia go up to chicago and record bumblebee that's her pretty sure chuck berry hears me in my chauffeur blues which she recorded a chance for checker and then he turns it into you can't catch me listen to those two back to back again sometimes you'll be amazed anyway  she was definitely one of the first on me my show for blues one hundred forty one she's playing an electric guitar which that's that's a lot that's a few years after the western swing and jazz guys are introducing electric guitar but right at the castle when the blues guys in chicago start picking it up so flipping the whole script signifying if you will on that idea as a female it's brilliant she's up in chicago playing cutting contests with all the leading blues musicians up there and she's winning every time right and we had testimony from people like tampa reds and yes she  she was she was amazing so let's let's let's remember something happened in the middle  that i live in jericho i'm just a drive away so and it's a cool places we didn't go but it came down to the name of  was one of the live in place called i'm glad i didn't know that the songs called kentucky blues it's a variation of long gone or lost john and basically the whole song it's kentucky blues it's written by a fellow from texas little  sound exactly alike which is interesting but this is the best one so this one this one's called kentucky blues babies he's trying to set to get out of kentucky as you can imagine so  general to figure out what was going on right because here he is he's a rural traditional blues player texas and he's to say he thinks he's going to get uptown he's going to get fancy so he is trying to go for that diminished core they which is you know you're hearing  like it's so wrong it's absolutely right and it's just one of those moments that you live for if you're into old pre war blues and seventy eight's and then you get a new set about learning in exactly the right way by the way of course not the strangest thing about the song and you discovered that there's also he's out just like a summary and i can't think of any other line in the blues that has i love that image and then when he does the descending passage at the end it should be  to enter the middle class before he passed away it allowed him to buy two homes at the time of his death he would brag later in life he'd say see this could talk about me my home and not bad for a man who spent the first sixty there's also a little bit of classical sort of technique going on there i guess i studied classical for a while then all over the map my master's in classical then went off and was a journalist for a while taught english in japan and was a music anyone my daughter asked yes yes