That's excellent
That is 100% my cup of tea. Are there any albums of his I should look out for?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:12, archived)

His one album got reissued not long ago

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:17, archived)

He only brought out one album
Blues Run The Game... it's a very good album.

He's got a sad life story, he only started playing the guitar after a horrible accident involving a furnace fire exploding whilst he was at school, it killed a lot of his classmates. His music teacher gave him a guitar to play to help distract him from the pain of the burns.

He later got paid out for the accident when he was old enough, and he lived on it in a hedonistic but unhappy fashion, ultimately not keeping tabs upon it. He was found by someone later in life in a park, he'd been living on the street for quite some time and had a fairly serious injury from kids shooting him with a BB/air gun, which I believe ultimately blinded him in the one eye.

He was taken in by the man who found him, and lived a few more years before passing away, too young.
( GrandmaOfShoes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:18, archived)

Wow!
That sounds like one of thsoe dreadful movies they put on during the day. I'll definitely check out the album though, cheers.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:24, archived)

It's not called Blues Run the Game though - it is eponymously titled.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:26, archived)

Although there may have been an anthology with that title

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:26, archived)

sorry, you are right.
The version I have is the Anthology version which is called Blues Run The Game and has his eponymous album first and other recordings bolted on at the end
( GrandmaOfShoes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:27, archived)

I'm not trying to show you up as a liar or anything

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:29, archived)

this is one of my all-time faves
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8-ZOuKetU
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:32, archived)

ah man, now I've just had to add a load of Son House & Leadbelly to my music queue
^{ta :)}
( GrandmaOfShoes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:34, archived)

Yeah I love all of that
Still waiting for someone to buy this for me: honestjons.com/shop/artist/Southern_Folk_Heritage
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:43, archived)

Like, as a candle day present or summat...

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:59, archived)

Fine.
Be like that then.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:59, archived)

well this is awkward

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 12:04, archived)

it seems almost compulsory to have a horrible life if you make that sort of music when you're young

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:28, archived)

I sometimes wonder about making my kids' lives more miserable in the hope that they may one day go on to create good art

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:30, archived)

That's why my parents were unkind to me
But I showed them....I've done fuck all with my life! SUCKERS!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:31, archived)

I'm planning it just for the fun
^{(I'm not actually planning anything of the sort, other than standard low-level dad jokes and embarrassment)}
( GrandmaOfShoes, Thu 4 Sep 2014, 11:32, archived)