a low down dirty classic blues from the back flow on the old Western Delta

Joel Banner Baird provides principal voice, guitar, acoustic bass

jhaffur khan azad darakth accompanies on brushes, silver flute, supporting voices

lyrics (Joel Banner Baird):

you hear about someone hereabouts

messin’ with the Western Delta?

yep: outranked ranger

too polite for trouble

picks his own groans,

rolls and tumbles, yep

gets sober seeing double

smokes a sign in the interim

plenty plentiful so please

keep him off the intercom

shooting stars

wherever they are

lit round his horoscope

like lariats wrap his banjo

like, this fella is

justice lookin’ for a home?

I hear someone hereabouts

messin’ with the Western Delta

Borrow another man’s scalp

if he wears the same size

one for me and a mule named Sal

(‘scuse me while I ventriloquize)

Hmmmmmmm.