Steve James >RIP

[pfunk]

Heard about it a few days ago. Very, very sad :-(
He visited us a few times over the last few years. The last time we were drinking coffee in our garden at the end of October 2022. Boy, could this man tell stories! After that, he played a short gig here in Goettingen, then we went to an Indian restaurant. And again, tons of stories and anecdotes.
The picture was taken three yeaars ago in our kitchen (Steve, Axel Kuestner (photographer & Blues nerd), me).
He will be missed!

[bdeivert]

I  just found out now about Steve leaving the world. I loved the duo work he did with Del Rey and saw them gig and went to a workshop they had in Stockholm sponsored by Lasse Johansson some years ago. Since Frank mentioned the cd TONIGHT above in his post, their cover on it of Chuck Berry's NADINE is a favorite of mine. Steve was a great musician and fellow blues mandolinist with a crazy sense of humor. We are the same age and I related easily to his outlook on the world when chatting the few times we met. I opened for him at a festival in Rovaniemi, Finland in 2014 too and we spent some time laughing and cruising around looking for food after the gig. Life is fragile but music lives on forever.