As the announcer says, we are at the center of the blues universe. Which for all anyone knows is the center of the real actual universe. Here’s Watermelon Slim’s opening number at the Tennessee Lottery Blues Tent and you can bet it’s a slice of heaven, yes it is.
Backstage at the Blues Tent, the venerable bluesman Pinetop Perkins sits quietly and somewhat luminously as Watermelon Slim goes through his sound checks. Mr. Perkins dispenses conversation and autographs as those who know who he is stand a bit away, shyly, somewhat in awe. This is the way it went.
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