'....Urban
Blues, using electric amplification, emerged in the northern cities
of the United States (chiefly Chicago) as exemplified by Howlin'
Wolf (Chester Burnett), Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) and
John Lee Hooker'.
Colin
stopped playing live regularly in 1980 at the request of an exasperated
fan club, both of whom agreed that they could no longer keep up
with the punishing schedule of early nights and gentle walks to
gigs. Since then he has played a few times a year with various
people but always in licensed premises so that his supply of Sanatogen
is not interrupted.
He has been a lifelong blues fan since seeing Alexis Korner on
television in the mid 1960's and has devoted his life to living
the blues, dusting his broom regularly, shaking his money maker
and, of course, going down to the crossroads at every available
opportunity.
His ambitions are to grow up and to grow old gracefully but these
targets are as far away from realisation today as ever and all
the rest of us can hope for is that he continues to retain sufficient
mental agility to remember when its his round.