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I grew up in a cold water flat
where the kitchen AM
radio ran 24 x 7. Later in life I learned that dairy farmers also ran radios
24x7 to keep the cows settled. I guess it worked for me too. I was a happy
kid ... and I had a dream.  At eight years old I
liked to walk
my dog on cold, snowy winter nights holding my portable AM radio up to the
telephone pole guy wires to get the best stations. I'd sometimes fall asleep
in that snow bank listening to R&B and Motown. The dog had more sense than I
and usually woke me up to take him home. But the mold was set. And the dog
knew it.As time passed I taught myself to sing harmonies to Motown, R&B and then Rock. I learned what worked - but not why it worked. My ear told me and I believed it. I didn't know what an interval was and still have to think about terms like that before I use them. I worked as a club musician until my late twenties. When the nightclub/drug/booze scene began to turn me off, I turned the music inside me "off" as well. For fifteen years.
Indigo Bob @ the Thunderbird Club in Tyngsboro MA. You hear people of experience talk about their "epiphany" - that one great moment of overwhelming clarity in their lives. Mine hit me when I heard Edgar Winter's White Trash Live album on a college radio station after 15 years of musical denial. Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer reminded me that I couldn't remain a spectator ... I had to be a player again! I began to hunt for Blues radio shows and I found them. I noticed the scales, leads, sounds, rhythms and most importantly THE STORIES I thought had gone with times past were still alive and well! Only now the DJ's called it Electric Blues or Post-Modern Blues. I bought some gear and six years later (and a lot of wood-shedding) found a lot of good reasons to move my family to Southwest Florida, one of the hottest emerging Blues scenes in the U.S.!
Indigo Bob |
