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No, it's not a death metal version...this time. I record all my music under the stage name of Hopalong Ginsberg. These days that's probably a microagression. For a free MP3 download of "St James Infirmary Blues" click either here or here.

I think there was a time in which the left owned the blues but things have come full circle to a point in which we own the blues. The Blues will never go away and conservatives need to push this into our culture. IMHO The "Blues" cuts to the core of virtually everything that matters. I will put forth my modern and somewhat obscure samples, as I hope to see yours.

David Honeyboy Edwards, the “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen” has died. This morning Monday August 29, 2011, about 3 am while resting peacefully at home, Honeyboy moved on to blues heaven. This picture was taken in West Point at the dedication of the Howlin Wolf Statue downtown….Rest in peace, sir… you were a fine blues gentleman…

having been a blues DJ since 1988 (and a DJ overall since '81), I figured I'd make a list of some of the blues tunes I can remember that fall into the novelty category. --Can Blue Men Sing the Whites, Bonzo Dog Band. Perhaps inspired by the times when Cream and they appeared on the same concert bill? --Generic Blues, Weird Al Yankovic. From the UHF soundtrack album. "Oh, son, make it talk, make it talk!...Allright, now make it shut up..." --Louis Jordan--the jump blues pioneer who inspired the likes of B.B. King and Chuck Berry did "There Ain't Nobody...

Blues fans...A great 24/7 stream from Illinois State University on WGLT. Enjoy.....

Someone shot one of our dogs this afternoon. She is a tri-color beagle who is the greatest escape artist from our yard we have seen. She will find any crack in the fence and wiggle out. She did so this afternoon and someone took a shot at her with a BB gun. Not too powerful you say? I have the vet bill and x-ray to show you a BB lodged in her back next to her spine. No surgery to remove it, just some anti-biotic to keep the infection down. Who did it? One neighbor is retired and feeds the...

I'm Deeply Saddened Taxes are due tomorrow...I'm deeply saddened. Daschle is still in the Senate...I'm deeply saddened A moose once bit my sister, I am deeply saddened Kerry, Edwards, Lieberman, and Kuchinich (among others) think they can be president....I'm deeply saddened.