Lightnin Willie and the Poorboys

No Black No White Just Blues Tour 2010 L.W.and Giles...'Delta Brothers' photo:JeanMarie L.W.and Giles...'Delta Brothers' photo:JeanMarie L.W. and Giles...'Delta Brothers' photo:JeanMarie L.W. Bruce Barber Aaron McRobbie Giles King (L to R) photo:JeanMarie Artwork by Grego photo:JeanMarie Three Bluesateers...photo:JeanMarie L.W. at Eden Court Theater/Scotland photo:JeanMarie BEALE STREET - MEMPHIS REVEREND GUITAR(pete anderson model) photo:mark bigelow SOME CALL HIM KEITH, WE CALL HIM DAD. MY FAVORITE STRATOCASTER photo: john ingledew LIGHTNIN' WILLIE/OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CORNBURY FESTIVAL photo: john ingledew MY GOOD FRIEND JAMES SALTER(COWBOY MOD) or DOC HOLLIDAY AND WYATT EARP CORNBURY FESTIVAL photo: john ingledew BUDDY GUY AT CORNBURY FESTIVAL photo: ann edwards always good to be on the radio...any radio anytime anywhere... LIGHTNIN' WILLIE AND GILES KING photo:philip guy-davis PETE ANDERSON AND LIGHTNIN' WILLIE AT YOLIE'S/VENTURA CALIFORNIA photo:jan Mcwhorter LIGHTNIN' WILLIE AND KIM WILSON AT 'CHEF DENIS'S JUKE JOINT'- LANGHAM HOTEL/PASADENA CALIFORNIA IGNITE SERIES AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL - LONDON BACK OF MY NATIONAL RESOPHONIC WITH MY GOOD FRIEND JAMES AT THE CAMERA BURNLEY BLUES FESTIVAL-UK WITH LES PAUL IN HAND LWPB AT THE EL CID IN HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA LIGHTNIN' WILLIE AT THE EL CID HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL BAND LOGO LIGHTNIN' WILLIE AND WILLIE NELSON 4TH OF JULY PICNIC FORT WORTH TEXAS HUBERT SUMLIN AND LIGHTNIN' WILLIE MARYPORT BLUES FESTIVAL (TRADING GUITAR STRAPS) CORNBURY FESTIVAL - ENGLAND HALL FOR TRURO A GREAT THEATER IN TRURO CORNWALL UNITED KINGDOM JIMI CHANGED MY LIFE ON MAY 27TH 1967 AT THE NEUWELT IN BERLIN...NICEST GUY IN THE WORLD VERY GIVING AND GENEROUS.PLEASED TO HAVE MET HIM ALL THOSE YEARS AGO! SLIPPING AND SLIDIN AND REMEMBERING WHAT BILLY BURKE TAUGHT ME,,,COOL LICK BILLY PETE ANDERSON AND LIGHTNIN' WILLIE DOING THE GUITAR LEAN PETE IS SMILING L.WILLIE WATCHES THE AUDIENCE AND AMES SINGS SOME BACK-UP VOX GILES AND WILLIE TAKE IT TO THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED IT...IN THEIR FACE! NATIONAL RESOPHONIC CUSTOM BUILT THIS AND IT PLAYS INCREDIBLE. CORNBURY FESTIVAL JUST BEFORE THE PRETENDERS WENT ON. WE WERE RIPPING....RIP IT GOOD! SAYS IT ALL LOVE PLAYING MUSIC WITH GILES KING...CHECK OUT HIS OTHER BAND... HOKIE JOINT.

ONE OF THE GREATEST HARMONICA PLAYERS EVER BIG JOHN ZAMBAZIAN (MAN ON THE LEFT). WHEN I FIRST MET HIM HE SAID TO ME, "HEY MAN THAT'S ALL SHIT LISTEN TO MUDDY WATERS, LITTLE WALTER, HOWLIN' WOLF THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE ALL GETTING IT FROM". BIG JOHN AND JOHNNY TURNER HEADED UP BLUES WITH A FEELING AN INSPIRATIONAL BAND FOR ME AND MANY OTHERS. THEY WERE ON PETE WELDING'S TESTAMENT RECORDS LABEL, (PETE WROTE ARTICLES AND LINER NOTES FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY BLUES AND JAZZ ARTIST ALSO VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING ROYALTIES PAID TO SKIP JAMES, WILLIE DIXON, MUDDY WATERS, REV. GARY DAVIS AND THE LIST GOES ON). JOHN RAN A BAKERY AND HE WOULD BRING US ' BLUES PLAYERS ' FREE BREAD AND WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG AND DUMB YOU SPENT YOUR MONEY ON MORE IMPORTANT THINGS...GUITARS, GIRLS, BEER AND OTHER MOOD ENHANCERS. HE TOOK ME TO A SHOW AND HE INTRODUCES ME TO MUDDY WATERS ( AFTER SITTING IN WITH THE BAND ) AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER BLUES GREATS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY HE WAS HUMBLE AND NEVER TALKED DOWN TO US ALWAYS ENCOURAGING US TO PLAY LESS AND LISTEN MORE. UNFORTUNATELY HE PASSED AWAY BEFORE HE COULD SEE THE FRUITS OF HIS ENCOURAGEMENT. NOW I'M NOT SAYING MY FRUIT IS SWEET AS APPLES BUT BECAUSE OF HIM I HAVE REAPED A BASKET FULL OF MUSIC, TRAVELING, MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY, PLAYING WITH THE GREATEST MUSICIANS I COULD EVER HAVE DREAMED OF PLAYING WITH...CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THIS MAN. AS HE WOULD SAY, "HEY MAN... LET'S PLAY SOME BLUES".

No Black No White Just Blues Tour 2010