Freddie KING and Johnny Rivers connection to me weird true story. Waay back in Dallas Tx I was a young blues player jamming where ever I got the chance. One night a friend and I were first in line at the END OF COLE AVE club waiting. Door swings open and the owner says hey come in here. The light show booth was manned by volunteers apparently and WE were it for tonight. He ran to 7-11 for food color mineral spirits etc while I reset the slide projectors and cleaned the big liquid deals on the overheads. yadda yadda We had fun , donn't remember the local band Thursday night BUT he sold me to come back tomorrow for $. YES , next night I open the door & recruit a kid to work with. FREDDIE KING is playing and I'm in Heaven. At midnight we kick out the audience and Freddie is just getting started !! I ran down the ladder & plopped down on the pillows on the floor by myself. He ended a quick tune and I said " I've got my guitar out there". SCARED ! He said to the other 3 guys " White boy's got his guitar !" GO GET IT. I ran out to my trunk and got whatever guitar I had with me and ran back in where he plugged me in to little Tweed amp. THEN --- Blues , No WTF I love to play old blues. This week the new Johnny Rivers album Realization is out and the song SUMMER RAIN is all over the stations REALLY. Freddie wants to learn it and we learned it together. He showed me the rhythm part ( lots like Stairway to Heaven in parts) till I was competent and started noodling the way around the vocal melody on the guitar. Probably 10 minutes ( felt like 20) and he had it down. Band starts getting restless to go play poker so I thanked him & he me and split while they closed up. YEARS LATER Galaxies away We get to meet JOHNNY RIVERS. I tell him the 30 second version with Freddie and he got a big grin knowing he influenced Freddie back then. Lots of new artists have been hooked up to my group in the last month probably by N1M. Welcome BLUTO is all about Old School tunes and Blues traditional /JAMS . There are liner notes in the lyrics page of most songs for more info etc.. Have a great FALL SEASON ....