[Harp-L] Best shows ever seen (heard?) long, some harp

[Tom Ball <havaball@xxxxxxx>]

1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival.  I was 19.  Hitchhiked there and back 
by myself from Santa Monica CA (which took a week each way.) Three 
days and nights of blues.

Roosevelt Sykes, Bukka White, Mighty Joe Young, Jimmy Dawkins, John 
Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Lazy Bill Lucas, Fred 
McDowell, Juke Boy Bonner, Luther Allison, Albert King, Robert Pete 
Williams, Johnny Shines, Big Walter Horton, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny 
Young, Dave Alexander, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, 
Bobby "Blue" Bland, John Jackson, Papa Lightfoot, Little Brother 
Montgomery, Carey Bell, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Mance Lipscomb, Little 
Joe Blue, Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton, Little Junior Parker and 
Son House.

(And nope, I didn't recall all those names from memory -- I still 
have the program. I hitchhiked home with it -- it's got Boone's Farm 
Apple Wine stains all over it. It's one of the two souvenirs I came 
home with... the other of which was easily cured with Penicillin.)

--TB  <--feeling old   :)