OOH… Here’s One Thing
by Jim Johnsen,
Managing Director, Johnsen, Fretty & Company
Every year, when that clock gets set back an hour and it’s dark by 5pm, I feel the blues creeping in. Anyone else with me on that?
Hey Johnsen, that sounds like a cheeky segue to a little blues music. Damn you guys are fast. But really all the credit goes to Ted Bratsos, who after the PA state association meeting gave me a quick primer on some blues history as well extended an open invite to Chicago to come see some of the best blues in the world. I would assume that invite extends to anyone in the outdoor world looking to buy some steel :).
Anyway, after Ted lit the match, next thing I was down the rabbit hole: Robert Johnson, Mamie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Muddy Waters, Son House, Johnny Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Ma Rainey and Bo Diddley just to name a few. Still waiting for my DVD copy of Martin Scorsese’s The Blues – “A Musical Journey” (with Clint Eastwood) to come in. Why the hell one of the streaming services doesn’t have it baffles me. While I wait, I was able to watch “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” on Prime. Damn that is better than a show on Broadway. Highly recommend it. Have also been able to go deep on the audio book: B.B. King: The Thrill is Gone, The Legend Stayed. Get a load of this quote:
“B.B. is everywhere…Memphis, Chicago, Los Angeles, carrying the blues like a torch, lighting up stages that had never heard a voice like his, the guitar, now named Lucille ( Lucille – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_%28guitar%29#The_story_of_Lucille), after a women and a near death experience in a burning building, becomes an extension of him, it’s not just an instrument…its a conversation, a cry, a laugh, a story and the people listen! They listen on jukeboxes and diners, in cars with the windows rolled down, in living rooms where the radio is the only escape from the weight of the world. They listen because B.B. doesn’t just sing the blues …every note a memory, every chord a lesson…it’s not just in the music, it’s in the way he makes you feel like you have been there before. Like you have loved and lost and got back up again just like he has…”
Fantastic Johnsen, but what’s the point?
Plain and simple. B.B. King’s Lucille. Every day, when you wake up to sell something, strive to be RELATABLE! Every sale…and more so…every business interaction could be more genuine if you let down the guard, and find the real, no?
So leave your blue mood in the car where it belongs, open the heart…and let Lucille do the talking.
And don’t leave this post without giving this a look: https://youtu.be/LWLAAzOBoBI?si=UMyr2O3BPNMjTtzg
“You know I’m free, free now baby
I’m free from your spell
Oh I’m free, free, free now
I’m free from your spell
And now that it’s all over
All I can do is wish you well”
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