SBWII tidbit

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The following came through on the John Hiatt mailing list. The 1992 Hiatt
album referenced, "Little Village", has a song titled Don't Bug Me When I'm
Working. An actual heated conversation between SBWII and Leonard Chess is
mixed into the song. The conversation is as follows:

LC: What's the name of that?
SB: Little Village. Little Village motherf**ker!
LC: What's the hell's the song got to do with a village?
SB: It's a small town.
LC: I know what a village is!
SB: Well alright! You can call it your mammy if you want. F**k! It's a
small town.

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At 6:54 AM 2/13/95, Bob.Hegge wrote:
>I picked up the 'The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson' double cd from
>Chess. The liner notes are fantastic. It talks about the relationship
>between Sonny Boy (the second, real names is Rice Miller) and Leonard
>Chess. I am going to rewrite the paragraph rather than trying to
>interpret it.
>Sonny Boy's relationship with Leonard Chess is pithily captured in their
>exchange prior to "Little Village". It tersely speaks volumes about a
>grudging mutual respect and a frank mutual misunderstanding of intent.
>(the Legendary exhange inspired a band of rock veterans, including Ry
>Cooder and John Hiatt, to dub itself Little Village: "What caught Ry's
>ear was the pathos of this guy trying to capture his little piece of
>art," Hiatt told the editors of Hear Music Catalog, "and constantly being
>interrupted. Sonny's message is: 'Just let me do it and you'll find out
>what it's about.' We dig that as an aesthetic for our band." Now there's
>a blues record store in Studio City, California, also called Little
>Vilage. Its pragmatic motto: "Blues You Can Use.:)
>
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