[BluesDuke]

By the time I began listening to radio growing up in and around New York, there was little enough blues to be heard but a lot of great soul music by way of WWRL (before they became a ranting talk station). One of the first blues albums in that haul I described earlier was Howlin' Wolf's entry in the then Chess Vintage Blues Series, Evil. (Not to mention Muddy Waters's Sail On and Sonny Boy Williamson's Bummer Road. Later I latched onto Buddy Guy's entry in that series, I Was Walking Through the Woods . . .)

[Baynative]

In the late 50s and early 60s there were some cross over artists sneaking into the top 40 charts; Bo Diddley, Huey Smith, Bobby Blue Bland, etc. These were the ones that took me away and felt good. I didn’t know why, they just did.