An interest in the Blues is our our common interest, but we are a diversified group with diversified interests.  I'd like this Blog to tackle any subject from Delta Blues to Current Events.

Son House, during an interview, said that real Blues is properly about one subject only; the relationship between a man and a woman.  While I agree that much of the early blues began in that theme, I see the blues not as  fixed in form or subject matter.  It is an evolv ... Read More

Mississippi John Hurt coined the phrase "Just a lovin' spoonful" in a song called the Coffee Blues. In the song, Hurt says what he misses most about his woman is that cup of "Max'ells" House coffee she'd fix for him. 

The rock group of the same name saw Hurt perform in Greenwich Village during the early sixties and chose the line for the name of their new band.

I play a lot different types of music, but the blues to me is kind of like the lovin' spoonful in the Coffee ... Read More