Thank you for being in my life. I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to you, especially on a snoozeful summer afternoon, especially to your Long Gone Blues album. Your sliding bluesy tones, your vocal-cracking emotion and your simple sounds, combine to soothe me. You are music to my ears.
It’s hard to believe you’ve been long gone. It feels like you’re in the room (especially when I surround sound you and turn you up).
One of my favourite quotes is by Berthold Auerbach, a German Novelist from the 1800’s:
Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
I remember reading about your life, Billie, how you were abandoned by your mother, how you fell into prostitution and then struggled with drugs and alcohol. How sad your life was, and yet you found strength within, to produce music for the world that would last forever. I hope for you, Billie, that music washed the everyday dust from your soul.
Thanks for the music,
Jo
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