Preferable Blues came only a few months after the Mad Max tape. Again, New York, this time 2000. A new beginning. Shelly had a tiny "apartment" with Molly. You see I worked two jobs at the time, both a couple of blocks away and they were kind enough to let me crash there at all times of the day and night. Which I did so fluently. At one point not too long into the new year I noticed some cds and records laying about for a day or so. And later that week Shelly passed on a tape wrapped in a beautiful piece of paper with the title "Praise God I'm Satisfied" scrawled on the spine and "Preferable Blues" on the tape. It introduced me to one of my all time favorite songs and and musicians: "Spoonful" by Howlin' Wolf. And I've always imagined "Praise God I'm Satisfied" by Blind Willie Johnson sung by a bulldog with a little bird on its shoulder as they move on down a dirt road.
So many treks through late winter and spring to and from Brooklyn, the lower east side, and Jersey City at dawn and night on that janky 10-speed with my walkman chuggin along. This here's a good one.
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