OT Blues concert at White House on Public TV

[BobT-47P15]

Right Now......at least where we are here in MO at just after 8pm.

In case anyone else is interested........

Mick Jagger currently performing.

BB King

And the biggest line of guitar players I've seen lately........

[Dan Hiebert]

Cool. I watched that. I have BB King's autograph on the bill of one of my Border Patrol ball caps. I was sitting in Angie's Restaurant (the only one) in Fort Hancock, Texas along I-10 many years ago having some iced tea in the middle of my shift, when his tour bus pulled up. He and his crew came into the restaurant for lunch (Angie's was listed at the time in Texas Monthly as having the best salsa in the state). We were the only ones in the restaurant so we struck up a conversation. Mr. King asked for my ball cap, autographed the bill, and gave my cap back. I'm not an autograph collector by any means - his is the only one I have - but I haven't worn that cap since. Folks wonder why I have a plain old BP cap in my bookshelf here at work, so I have that neat story to tell.

[randroid]

Gents,

I feel almost honored to have seen BB King in concert a couple years ago (with Etta James and Al Greene) but to have had a conversation with the gentleman would be a memory I would take to my grave.

I saw that PBS segment and as much as I don't envy any President his job I must add that Obama held his own in his brief duet.

-Randy

[BobT-47P15]

Everyone, as far as I can tell, says BB is a real nice guy.

He has slowed down in the last few years due to his older age

and diabetes. He sits to play most (maybe all) of the time.

Saw him and Buddy Guy in concert last summer in

Lampe, MO near Branson....an outdoor ampitheater.

He did about a 30 minute show.

There was a big crowd on hand.....several said something like

"we know he isn't what he used to be, but we love him and

still enjoy seeing him."

[BobT-47P15]

And.....if you like rockin' piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, you need

to see this fellow, Jason D. Williams. He bears a certain resemblance to

Jerry Lee and plays in the same style. Does all those crazy bits like

playing with his foot, jumping up on top of the piano, etc.

He's been traveling around the country some lately, and has a website

containing his schedule. We saw him a couple years ago in Kansas City,

and again a couple weeks ago at a casino in W. Siloam Springs, Okla.

[BobT-47P15]

Then, there's Kerrie McCarver Lewis, Jerry Lee's ex-wife, who now has

her own band in the Memphis area. Met her and played harmonica

behind her on a couple songs on a cruise two years ago. A pretty good

singer in her own right.

[Dan Hiebert]

Gents,

I feel almost honored to have seen BB King in concert a couple years ago (with Etta James and Al Greene) but to have had a conversation with the gentleman would be a memory I would take to my grave.

I saw that PBS segment and as much as I don't envy any President his job I must add that Obama held his own in his brief duet.

-Randy

He was a genuinely nice guy. We didn't even talk about our "jobs", we talked about the history of the area (such as; a young Lieutenant George S.Patton was the XO of the Army unit posted there before he shipped out to WW1). Zipping along I-10 one tends to miss Ft Hancock, but out of all the places I've been, I ran into more "famous" people there because it was a convenient whistle-stop where the celebrities didn't have to deal with throngs of adoring fans - that and Angie's being a salsa mecca for a few years didn't hurt.