Saturday 21st May - Clarksdale MISSISSIPPI
Model T Ford is a 90 year old blues man. Today was his 1 year wedding anniversary and everyone was invited to celebrate. A tiny club in Clarksdale to hold such an amazing bluesman he completely wiped the floor with Honey Boy Edwards who i saw last year in Leeds and who is still only a spring chicken in in his 70's. Red's was incredibly friendly, especially considering the number of people who wandered in all evening talking thorough the set. Leon being a blues addict insisted we stay until the very end when we were literally the only people in the the place who hadn't been at the couple's wedding. The gig was an absolute must and this trip hasn't been called the 'Old Man Dead Tour' for nothing, I doubt I'll ever see Model T again considering his age and the fact her doesn't travel but we was sooo worth the trip, plus they served cake so I was about as happy as I could be. We also made friends with Dave and his mate from Iowa whoa re also staying at the Shack Up Inn, they consider themselves to be serious music fans and kept throwing our names of artists in some kind of gig one-up-manship, I held my own until they there out Van Morrison which I couldn't best however they hadn't reckoned on Leon who trumped them with a Van x5 (the number of times he's seen him) and they had to submit. Not bad really considering their age and the distance they had travelled but Leon had started playing this game as a child and isn't easy to beat. They were heading onto another gig but told us to stop by their shack for a whiskey when we got back to our shack, we tried (you never know when you're going to need a friend in Iowa) but they'd already headed off to bed, lightweights.
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