I first came across the blues through this image. It was on the front cover of King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II, a collection of recordings by Robert Johnson, which by the miracle of twentieth-century production and distribution systems had made its way from the 1930s Mississippi Delta to 1970s Whitstable public library.Read More
Month: September 2018
Benches
So it was that I was walking along a woodland path, beside a lake, on a beautiful early autumn day when all of the world had decided to be elsewhere. A gap in the trees appeared, offering a fine view over the water – and there was a bench. It had someone’s name upon, carvedRead More