Topic: Pioneers of the Blues Revival

[Bunker Hill]

Pioneers of the Blues Revival
By Steve Cushing
Publisher University of Illinois Press (due Spring 2013)

Interviewees: Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, Pete Whelan, Dick Waterman, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Robert Dixon, Bob Koester, John Broven, Ray Flerlage, Mike Rowe, Jim O'Neal, Dick Spottswood, Jacques Demetre, Phil Spiro, David Evans, Chris Barber, Chris Strachwitz.

I'm trying to acquire photos of the interviewees and the names they invoke in the course of their interview. I have roughly two more weeks before deadline if it's to be published in spring of 2013.

Steve tells me that several whom he contacted declined the invitation to be interviewed for this project, with laudable modesty no doubt.

[uncle bud]

Should be some pretty interesting tales in there. I look forward to it.

[dj]

Thanks for letting us know about this, Bunker.

[Bunker Hill]

One person who couldn't be interviewed was the late Mike Leadbitter but, lest we forget, here's a truncated on-line obituary which originally appeared in Blues Unlimited at the time of Mike's death.

http://www.recordsbymail.com/MikeLeadbitterBluesUnlimited.php

[Parlor Picker]

When I ran into Prof. Longhair in Carnaby Street in the early 1970s, on realising I knew something about this music, he asked me if I knew "Mike Legsbitter" [sic]! I explained that I didn't know him personally but was very familiar with his writing.