FRANK PELLEGRINO:
Luther always struck me as bein' really down to earth. Again, somebody who I knew from when I was very young, and his bein' around the [Kingston] Mines and on the blues scene in Chicago. His son Bernard and I are very close in age, and so it was sorta like, when they'd come around me'n Bernard would hang out and Luther would be playin' or sittin' in or whatever. Bernard would just be sittin' there, like, takin' notes, mental notes in his head---and look where he is today...
Most of the families in the blues were all growing up together in about the same era, and it was a very close-knit community, as it is today. And so many of the kids are now professional musicians...carrying on the family traditions. (7/30/00 AE)
Luther always struck me as bein' really down to earth. Again, somebody who I knew from when I was very young, and his bein' around the [Kingston] Mines and on the blues scene in Chicago. His son Bernard and I are very close in age, and so it was sorta like, when they'd come around me'n Bernard would hang out and Luther would be playin' or sittin' in or whatever. Bernard would just be sittin' there, like, takin' notes, mental notes in his head---and look where he is today...
Most of the families in the blues were all growing up together in about the same era, and it was a very close-knit community, as it is today. And so many of the kids are now professional musicians...carrying on the family traditions. (7/30/00 AE)