Ted’s Tales

Bo Diddley is about the coolest dude I ever booked or worked with. The first time he played the FBF he was a last minute add-on. In the area and…

I had had this idea about featuring an entire festival of the slide guitar, because I loved the sound and itseemed to belong to the blues. I called my favorite…

In the history of what we popularly consider to be the Blues, who do you think might be the greatest musician? That is a very hard and revealing question— I’d…

In 1993, because so many of our really good Bay Area blues entertainers are women and deserved to be honored, we set about to book the ‘Women and the Blues”…