IN LIVING BLUES #158
July 2001

Dear Friends, I’m still recovering from the whirlwind of the W.C. Handy Awards weekend in Memphis (including the annual meeting of the Blues Music Associati...

IN LIVING BLUES #118
NOVEMBER 1994

Dear Friends, I just got back from Argentina, where I was on a whirlwind three-day tour with Koko Taylor and Kenny Neal. They performed in a giant basketball...

IN LIVING BLUES #117
SEPTEMBER 1994

Dear Friends, Just got done with the final mixes for Kenny Neal's latest album, ’’Hoodoo Moon." The young man from Baton Rouge has done it again –lots of tas...

IN LIVING BLUES #111
SEPTEMBER 1993

Dear Friends Before I start rambling on about our upcoming releases and colorful past, I want to take a moment to say goodbye to Lefty Dizz, whose funeral wa...

IN LIVING BLUES #99
SEPTEMBER 1991

Dear Friends, Seems like I’m always writing these on the way to or from airports. I just got back two hours ago from three weeks on the road in Europe with K...

IN LIVING BLUES #95
JANUARY 1991

Dear Friends, With the new albums by The Mellow Fellows and Lucky Peterson, we’ve wrapped up our 1990 releases. But we have a couple of treats for January –t...

IN LIVING BLUES #92
JULY 1990

Deal' Friends, Just returned from everywhere (Brazil for the 2nd annual Brazil Blues Fest, California where I recorded a live album with Little Charlie and t...

IN LIVING BLUES #88
SEPTEMBER 1989

Dear Friends, Seems like I’m virtually living in the studio these days. I’ve just finished the final mixes for Katie Webster’s second Alligator album, "Two-F...

IN LIVING BLUES #82
SEPTEMBER 1988

Dear Friends, As I get ready to leave for the airport to head for Japan with Albert Collins and the Icebreakers and Lil’ Ed, I suddenly remember I promised t...