The Blues & Billie Armstrong 66
BLUE INTERLUDE
Previously in The Blues & Billie Armstrong…
I laid the newspaper down next to my drink on the side table, and I buried my face in my hands. “I should have known,” I said out loud to no one. Turned my face up to the ceiling, laughed at the muddy convoluted truth.
There’s an old blues tune called Sufferin’ Mind, written and recorded by a New Orleans player named Eddie Lee Jones, who went by the stage name Guitar Slim.
He had a few big hits in the early 1950’s, but a short career. Some folks live life at a faster tempo and Guitar Slim drank his way to a Louisiana cemetery before his thirty-third birthday.