The Chicago Blues Legends and their audience fared well until the last few minutes of the performance when the "liquid sunshine" once again showed up. Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, Carey Bell and Hubert Sumlin comprise the main body of the "Legends". What a show! The blues stalwarts who attended, even though they had to have known the weather would be unstable all day, were treated to Chicago blues at its best, the way all blues is best heard - live and up close.

Sadly, with the weather playing dirty tricks on us, the "Legends" didn't stick around long and your humble correspondent didn't get to present our special "Up From The Delta" CD to Mr. Sumlin. Oh, well, I've got a sneaking suspicion the "Legends" will be back in town. St Louis, being smack dab in the middle of the country, is a magnet for blues artists on tour since it's hard to cross the country without stopping to play for extremely appreciative audiences.

One of my very good friends, Keith Doder, was scheduled to start during Bobby's act so I had to split my time between them. As I walked up to the stage Keith was on, he was performing "Faking Lucky". I got goose bumps because "Faking Lucky" just happened to be the first tune on a St Louis hour from last Thursday - a St Louis hour I turned into an audio CD to give to St Louis talent who weren't already aware of what we do to promote the St Louis blues in over 50 countries via the show. Something like "deja vu all over again"???

Earlier in the afternoon, Ron Edwards put on a brilliant slide guitar performance for a very appreciate group of early blues aficionados. In my opinion, Ron is one of the best slide guitar players alive today, if not the best. Ron also broadcasts an outstanding blues heritage program every Sunday night on our local community radio station. His show is truly entertaining but also quite instructive as Ron researches and draws on his extensive knowledge of the early blues. He misses very, very Sunday evening shows so, hopefully, most of his regular listeners came out to the Festival to hear and see him in person. It was well worth braving the nasty weather.

That's a wrap for now. There's one more Festival day and some of our St Louis heavy-hitters are headlining today. I never intentionally miss an opportunity to see The Father Of Rock-and-Roll, Mr. Johnnie Johnson. So...

One apology is in order: On Saturday I interviewed Robert Jr Lockwood without referring to my notes first - didn't really have time less I miss the opportunity. He must have thought me daft when I asked him about recording with Clapton and Keith Richards. But, he was so classy about it, just shaking his head and affirming, "Yeah, we did that" instead of correcting me. Driving to the Sunday version of the Festival, listening to the CD I'd planned on handing to Hubert Sumlin, I was reminded that Sumlin's new CD features the rock icons, not Lockwood's. Oh, well, Mr. Lockwood didn't seem to mind, I guess I shouldn't either.