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February 17, 2007
Buddy King Band/ Blues Hawgs By :Mo
At work we have a boombox and it's always being played. I try to keep the mix going but right now I'm in a temporary work station a bit farther from the box so it usually has someone else at the controls these days. Believe me... it's only temporary and when I get back to my regular work station, there will be more blues in that rotation. The dude that has control now never plays the blues and calls it "elevator music". Needless to say...we don't see eye-to-eye and it's not just about that, but that didn't help.
So we got some new guy in there the other day who's on temporary "reassignment" and when the crap that was on the box was over he yelled out, "Play the blues!".
He didn't get my attention much until that moment. I went over to pick his brain about the blues and he knew little except for Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepard, BBKing and that's about it. I knew I had my work cut out for me. So, our temporary DJ came over and asked me for some blues out of my collection. I had them over in my section. We have our own much smaller box there. I was happy to give him some. I gave him the Luther Allison "Live in Chicago" to get them started.
He put it on and Luther was singing/wailin' in his soul-drenched way he does, "Goin' back... back to that shoeshine stand...." and the dude asks, "Is that BBKing?" and I had to laugh.
It wasn't the first time someone asked me that when I played that Cd there.
The last dude that did is now a HUGE Luther fan!!
The next day, my new blues buddy came in with a shirt that said "Sonoma County- Blues Hawgs" on it and had that picture if the pig in raybans. I was floored!!
He said he thought of me when he put it on that morning. I asked, "Where did you get that shirt?" He wasn't sure and he never even heard the name "Blues Hawgs" or of "The Buddy King Band".
I went into telling him about the band and all the times I used to go see them. That was years ago and did that jar some fond memories of the days when I was just steppin' out into the "live" music scene here in Sonoma County. I really miss that band. I really miss Roy Anderson. He was just about the best blues guitarist in these here parts.
So, I told him about the Cd I have and took it in the next day and we listened to it and I recorded it for him. It was so cool to hear David Schrader's sax wailin' through out the kitchen. The acoustics are great in that building for sax playing.
To hear Roy's guitar just floatin' throughout that massive kitchen was great too. Work all-of-sudden- became much more enjoyable and I was working at a steady blues rollin' pace.
That was cool. I thanked my new blues buddy for jarring some memories and making me dig that one out of the collection. I almost asked him for the shirt off his back but didn't.
Sure miss Roy and that band.
Later,
Mo
Posted by Mo at February 17, 2007 06:37 AM