“I was living in Taos at the time and I was really excited about moving to New Orleans and hooking up with the legendary blues scene here. I packed up all my stuff and moved here only to discover that the legendary scene was just an illusion and that there really was no blues scene in New Orleans. There were obviously many great blues musicians in New Orleans, but no collective sense of any blues community or ongoing scene where players got together to jam and learn their craft. The ...