Friday, March 26, 2010

Top pic is Larry at the Red Roof Inn in Little Rock, Arkanasas - he's happy to be in a new state. 2nd & 3rd pic is Eldon at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale Mississippi. 4th is a pic of Johnny Billington. Eldon took this in he Delta Blues Museum (where you are not supposed to take pictures). Johnny sat by us at Ground Zero & we started chatting. He's quite old and hunched over - turns out he knew some of Eldon's blues heroes personally, like Muddy Waters. He runs an academy to teach young, disadvantaged children how to play the blues. He said he wanted to teach kids respect and the blues. I looked him up on-line when I got back to the hotel to see if he was for real and there he was. Interesting man. The last pic is Eldon & Larry at "The Crossroads". I have to say everyone, black & white, that we have met are super friendly. Not only do they all ask how we are doing & where are we from, but want to have whole conversations with us. This is a good thing since we could use somebody else to talk to once in a while! Heading into Oklahoma tomorrow.

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