Yea Mogens, the season for good concerts is coming up for sure! I have a friend by the name of Oliver Johnson, he gigs every Thursday at The Hideaway Piano Bar near my bungalow here in SW city. I've known Oliver for over 25 years, when he was the front man for Tommy Bankhead's Blues El Dorado's. Oliver is hella talented, sings, plays keyboard and trumpet (sometimes both at once) and dances. He's a direct descendent or Robert Johnson, and toured the world with The Albert King Band as Alberts band director! He also has played with Gladys Knight and the Pips, Chuck Berry, and Ike Turner. He told me when he was a kid growing up in East St Louis, he used to come home from school and Ike Turner would be shitfaced drunk passed out on the couch in his house! He studied trumpet under Cout Basie's t rumpet player. Kinda lost touch with Oliver after Tommy's funeral, which I was a paulbearer at, untill he started playing the Hideaway on Thursdays, a buzy day for me, hoops nite at the church gym with the home boys. Anyway, here is a real gem I found on the allmighty Youtube, Albert King and the Great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Albert didn't restring that Flying V, he plays backwards, thus creating a kick a$$ unique sound. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26qBxol3Lx0
