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Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:50 am**

I've heard Otis Campbell played some mean harp in the county jail.

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:00 am**

Bob: There are some guitarists who I know that have suggested that 85 watts is sufficient for a bass player as well.

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:21 am**

haha! 85 watts per string.

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:57 am**

Jim, are you sure that pistol-whipping reference is a song lyric? Sounds more like a line from a David Crosby interview...

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:40 am**

Oh absolutley it's a lyric ...

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:58 am**

Okay, I'm game...let's see...err...it's not Donovan, is it?

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:02 am**

There's been a few versions of the particualr song over the years, Stones, did one, Big Bill Brunsey did one, and Muddy Waters does the best version !!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:06 am**

Ruby Tuesday?? No, wait....Angie?? Darn, I'm just no good at this...

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:51 am**

I'd add Jimmy Reed and Robert Johnson to that list of blues artist essentials. And, while it's not strictly blues, I always kind of heard Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five as a "bridge" between jazz, blues and R&B. "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" is one of the best songs ever.

As to playing a song "record perfect", I'd go along with the other comments - if it's a core part of the song then stay close, otherwise, if people want to hear the record, let 'em go buy it! That's a paraphrase of Buddy Guy from when one of my brothers went to his club in Chicago.

I can't get the "pistol" lyric, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it wasn't Pat Boone.

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