Today’s soundtrack: you treat me too much wrong
Today at 11:02am: in the freezing cold, having a twelve-block cup of coffee



With thirty gigs of music under this keyboard, one week I’m into this, next week I’m into that. Lately I’m spending a lot of time in the blues section. Not the sad, low kind of blues, though that kind is good too, but more of the rollicking kind, you know, the shit that Elvis ripped off. I love how blues lyrics are imprecise in syntax but dead-to-rights in meaning.

Here’s a list of the sixteen best blues songs I own, in case your taste is like mine. Each of them is worth tracking down but are not for the casual listener; if you don’t already like the blues I doubt any of these will sweep you up after a single listening. And as always, if you go to the trouble of acquiring these tracks and decide you don’t like ‘em, well...keep it to your damn sugar self.