Blues under the tuscan sun

I made the last night

of the Pistoia blues festival yesterday
and i finally got to see Robert Cray live.

A really exelllent show, 5 hours of non-stop

blues. Robert Cray and Jimmy Vauhan both
got a little more than an hour, and

Bob put on a show that demonstrated
why he had top billing.

The Italian blues singers were excellent

too, singing in perfect southern
bluesy english, then speaking in italian

sounded pretty weired. Frencesco
Piu was the best blues singer, just one

man with an acoustic guitar, but he only
had 3 songs.

oh well, back to emilia romagna.

Updated back home, added pictures, links.

The other group that played that has a really big future is Cedric Burnside and

Lightnin' Malcolm from Holly Creek Mississippi. Just a Drummer and lead guitar

and they both sang, but they really tore the heck out of their instruments.

Something on the wind

Kind of a sucky day at work. I was never good at politics and it
looks like I muffed one badly, I'll probably be back not so far from I-10
sooner rather than later. Oh well. I do get to go help out on a project
in trinidad...over carnivale. Which should be better than a poke in the
eye with a sharp stick (I've poked myself in the eye with a sharp stick,
so I know).

Since it's a week before carnival there are no flights, so we'll be on a flying
tour of all the best places in the next week to make connecting flights, miami,
curacao, barbados and trinidad. The most useful stop will be in miami, I can
buy some powerball tickets, which is plan P, and plan P is the plan most likely
to save me from working until I'm 72.

It'll be great if things work out, but I'm not hopefull. I need a moodring Ipod
that can cue up blues song after blues song...."ya done fucked up your job....
after workin' away your youth...now your dringin' cheap whiskey, cause
40 ounce beers are so uncouth... " or you get the idea.