apropos of nothing

Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s acoustic version of Blue on Black.

I was sitting in the driveway of a friend’s house rolling the dial up and down when I caught the first few bars of the guitar, and then sat mesmerized while I listened.  It took me almost ten years to figure out who it was singing it; the song’s been out since 1997.  It’s on a kick ass rock and blues album called Trouble Is…