Re: Getting the Blues
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Getting the Blues
- From: K* B* <k*@baker.cnw.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:54:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 "irisborer" wrote:
> I've often wondered why some enterprising hybridizer didn't start a line of
> blues named after blues singers! I'm a big fan of blues - and bought
> Lankow's Lady Day just based on the name (and found it to be a stupendous
> white IB.. or is it BB?). Anyway - just seems like a rich field of names:
>
> Little Walter
> John Lee Hooker
> Gatemouth Brown
> even the man hisself, Mr. BB King
>
Great idea, Kathy! Hope some of you hybridizers out there are paying
attention. May I nominate for your consideration Ms. Nina Simone - as
blue as the blues get!
Kay, in the Skagit Valley, Washington
