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BIG BILL MORGANFIELD
The Rising Son of a Blues Legend

R. L. BURNSIDE
A Hip Hop Grandpa at 73?

A FAT POSSUM UPDATE
Punk Blues Lives? Precariously.
Big Bill Morganfield
© 1999 David Horwitz

 Also in this Issue
  Fall Festivals
  The days are growing shorter, but the grooves keep coming.
  From Port Arthur to the World
  Reunited Texas bluesmen Lonnie Brooks, Philip Walker, Long John Hunter and Ervin Charles have come a long way since their salad days in gritty Port Arthur.
  Piazza to Go
  Rod and Honey Piazza have played and stayed together full-time since 1977. It must be their common attitude: Once you’re on the bandstand, give it all you’ve got.
  Wolf Prints
  When Raeburn Flerlage photographed Howlin’ Wolf in 1962, he got some strangely blurred results. Next time around it was Rae who got blurred.
  Sleepy John Estes
  Bob Koester couldn’t believe his ears in 1962 when he was handed a contemporary recording of the Tennessee blues legend.
  Mem Shannon
  The former New Orleans cabbie believes good music begins and ends with a good song.
  Handy Awards
  The Blues Foundation rolled with the punches and came up with a dandy Handy Awards weekend.
 

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