Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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working on a computer-processed string quartet, I like it to have some of that feeling.
After releasing Terraplane, Sharp added blues/gospel singer Queen Esther to the group.
When Sharp learned that she had sung with blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin in Texas, Sharp
arranged for Sumlin to perform with the Terraplane band at the Knitting Factory. This
began a fruitful partnership that led to Sumlin playing on additional Terraplane CDs, and
being
At a benefit for injured rock and jazz drummer Sim Cain at the downtown jazz club
-three-year-old Sumlin commented,
good to me [to have the respect of younger artists]. I like to play with other
people. Music has no bars. All music sound good. I listen to every kind of music in the
world and I done been all over the world. I done played with everybody in this nation that
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lemme tell you something, them guys lived what they sung about. They lived the life, and
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Song:
- Robert Johnson
T O B Y
A toby is a good-luck charm or amulet. In Flash of the Spirit, art historian Robert Farris
Thompson speculated that the word toby was
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fallen in her tea. To counteract this sign of bad luck, she resolved:
Unlike a mojo, which is usually in a flannel or leather bag, a toby is kept in a bottle or
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Catholic World magazine in 1886, Mrs. L.D. Morgan recounted that Maryland police had
found a toby on the person of an African American man arrested for wife beating. This
-egg, covered first with yellow, then
with black leather. One end being open, the contents were seen to be composed, to all
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appear
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