Blues for Al Wilson https://youtu.be/nao6cvwrRpo video i keep thinking of you way before Canned Heat, whenyou were in Cambridge and I was driving you around and you were teaching me patiently the blues, especially the Delta, history aand it took, they took , my breath away and i type as usual w/ closed eyes remembering you and your apartment and the garbage inside and out and the knocking on thd door and feces in the hall and all that was going on and backing up through the redlight again and worried about and know you were the real thing, not your depth of knowledge but the way you carried music in your being and what an influence that had on me and my guitar playing which was changed forever and you showing h=me how to tune and tune and then there were so many others around the time and I breathed the blues, Delta mainly and then knew it wasn't my music but for me was and still is the fundamental american music, something i could never have conceived of, and al of those great musicians, Son House who I was so honored to meet, and on and on and that had nothing for me to do with reading scales but playing, immersing inthe music , and everything changed for me and then of course Europe and Rafi Zabor and there were those t=really early albums and the breakp=up of my first marriage and i kept casting myself adrift of myself and only in the last quartr of a century have found any peace, and i'm still playing Al, not Alan, Al, I'm still playing and my life turned then and you help0ed even though Fahey disliked what I was doing, what I was doing, what I was doing, too much repetition he said too much repetition and there went that record deal alh=though then there was that early record of mine, Riverboat? maybe, before ESP where I settled in & today they still have doubts about me, and Al, I miss those days, and when I see you in those videos now Cannaed Heat, i sense you were still in that same world, three's a recording of you talking about the blues as well, and hearing your voice speaking the bottom drops out for me and I'm utterly lost then found again ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
