Reminiscin' (Re: [mplpost] 'live' interviews)

[Jay Linden]

For Bill, *way* long time no see, trust and hope all is well.  One part
I can certainly help you with ...

Bill Usher wrote:

[...]

> We came back to New Orleans for the festival in May and I remember walking
> with a very old Sam Chatmon back to the horse barns off the fair grounds
> trying to find a quieter place to record. A very young teenager name of
> Colin Linden was there with his traveling partner Jim (???) hanging on every
> riff and word that Sam uttered. Sam chastised me on tape because, with his
> accent, I couldn't understand that 'turn up' greens was 'turnip' greens.

Jim MacLean.  Mostly he played blues harp back then.  He's still in
Toronto, still plays, mostly guitar, sometimes is in Atlanta.  Colin was
in town last night at Hugh's Room and Jim dropped by, and I run into Jim
pretty frequently, and he's looking great and has the world's most
energetic young son.

You can see a picture of the artwork from the "Sam Chatmon & His
Barbecue Boys" album on Colin's (badly out of date, sorry, but we're in
the process of an update) website at
http://www.colinlinden.com/chatmon.html -- Colin and Jim are the
"Barbeque Boys".  And yes, that indeed was Colin with no beard and no
hat.  And Jim still looks just like that.  'Fraid the album is *long*
out of date, which is a crying shame -- it was Sam's last, I'm pretty
sure.
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