Cool Blues

Back in the '80s I worked part time in a big record store. One day an older gentlemen came back to the tape desk where I was working and told me he was was tired of listening to the same old stuff all the time and asked if I could recommend something new in the blues. I asked if he knew Son Seals, and he said no. So I told him that he was a great guitar player in the B.B. King/Otis Rush mold, and he selected one of the cassettes we had. He was back an hour later and bought all the other Seals titles we carried (there were maybe two others). Without a doubt, that was the most successful recommendation I ever made-- it's very gratifying to turn someone on to something new. Maybe this clip will have the same effect on some of you: