Thomas wished his intense color didn’t make him have to explain time and again that it was not necessarily an indication of his political point of view or his choice in music (although he was quite fond of Stevie Ray Vaughn, B. B. King and Marcia Ball) . . .
Being Blue, everyone expected Herbie to do B. B. King, John Lee Hooker, or maybe Marcia Ball–the blues–at Karaoke night, but no, he did “Don’t Worry, Be Happy . . .”
As the girls got off the tour bus and walked into the hotel in Memphis, they were surprised to be asked if they had come for the Democratic convention. “No,” they said, “wrong kind of blue. We’re here there for the B. B. and Albert King Blues concert; we heard K. D. Lang and Marcia Ball may show as well!”. . . . . David, Sf.G.
