[NetBehaviour] Blues for Al Wilson

[Alan Sondheim]

Blues for Al Wilson

https://youtu.be/nao6cvwrRpo video

i keep thinking of you way before Canned Heat, whenyou were in
Cambridge and I was driving you around and you were teaching me
patiently the blues, especially the Delta, history aand it took,
they took , my breath away and i type as usual w/ closed eyes
remembering you and your apartment and the garbage inside and
out and the knocking on thd door and feces in the hall and all
that was going on and backing up through the redlight again and
worried about and know you were the real thing, not your depth
of knowledge but the way you carried music in your being and
what an influence that had on me and my guitar playing which was
changed forever and you showing h=me how to tune and tune and
then there were so many others around the time and I breathed
the blues, Delta mainly and then knew it wasn't my music but for
me was and still is the fundamental american music, something i
could never have conceived of, and al of those great musicians,
Son House who I was so honored to meet, and on and on and that
had nothing for me to do with reading scales but playing,
immersing inthe music , and everything changed for me and then
of course Europe and Rafi Zabor and there were those t=really
early albums and the breakp=up of my first marriage and i kept
casting myself adrift of myself and only in the last quartr of a
century have found any peace, and i'm still playing Al, not
Alan, Al, I'm still playing and my life turned then and you
help0ed even though Fahey disliked what I was doing, what I was
doing, what I was doing, too much repetition he said too much
repetition and there went that record deal alh=though then there
was that early record of mine, Riverboat? maybe, before ESP
where I settled in & today they still have doubts about me, and
Al, I miss those days, and when I see you in those videos now
Cannaed Heat, i sense you were still in that same world, three's
a recording of you talking about the blues as well, and hearing
your voice speaking the bottom drops out for me and I'm utterly
lost then found again


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