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...

IN LIVING BLUES #81
JULY 1988

Dear Friends, Just got back from San Francisco, where I was mixing a new album with an old favorite--Elvin Bishop! You old fogies (like me) will remember Elv...

IN LIVING BLUES #79
MARCH 1988

Dear Friends, Irony strikes. Last time, I was telling you about the awful train wreck that the Son Seals band and I were in while touring Norway in 1978. Now...

IN LIVING BLUES #78
JANUARY 1988

Dear Friends, I'm just back from two whirlwind trips to Europe, first to the Utrecht Blues Festival in Holland with Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, then t...

IN LIVING BLUES #77
NOVEMBER 1987

Dear Friends, Oh, hoK I hate to get up in the morning! I’ve been in the studio every night until between 3 and 4 a.m. for almost a month. First., I was finis...

In Living Blues #221
September 2012

Dear Friends, In late July I had the great pleasure of attending the PA Blues Festival, the successor to the Pocono Festival in the picturesque mountains of ...

In Living Blues #196
May 2008

Dear Friends, A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Springing The Blues Festival in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Sam Veal founded this...

IN LIVING BLUES #167
January 2003

Dear Friends, Because Living Blues skipped an issue, I’ve got four months of news to cram into this letter. First of all, we’re thrilled to have earned 19 W...