The Guild of Blues

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As mentioned in other posts, I am a fan of the blues.  I was thinking about how best to describe my journey of discovery from the early ’70’s to today,  and I saw it in three phases: the original bluesmen, the adoption of that style by the young (at the …

8th Street Pool Hall

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I did a fair amount of skipping school during high school.  It certainly was a different time; there wasn’t a lot of chasing truants down or reporting home on absences.  Whenever we were hanging out in a coffee shop, restaurant or pool hall, the employees didn’t appear to be overly …