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too, Magic Johnson would come in
and hear me sing on the weckends,
two years ago in L.A. at a little
lounge called Homer and Edie’s
Bistro. It was a Louisiana gumbo
place. Memphis Slim came in to
see me. He was sitting as close to
me as you ire and Tsang him one
of his songs, Messing Around With
the Blues.

“Chris Lemmon came down to

* jam with me (Jack Lemmon'’s son).

He plays a mean piano. He wrote a
song for me called / Stay Blue (But
You Stay Gone).”
Michael: Tell me a bit about you
living the blues in L.A.

Aaron: “You know we got shot

atone day driving home in L.A,
The bullet hit two inches from the
gas tank, We could have blown up.
Some crackpot took a crack al us,
This was during the Rodney King
stuff.

“We had been up in Canada for
a week to visit her mother. As we
drove buck we pulled into Las
Vegos fora break on the way into
L.A. Everybody was watching the
TY, the riots had just started and |
said ‘Oh Lord, I’ve got to drive into
L.A.! Turn around and go back to
Canada.’

“They stole everything | had, my
jewelry, my instruments, | was liv-
ing in Central L.A. 1 had $10,000 of
stuff sitting there and it was just .
gone. These were my tools.”

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Michael: Where do you side in
the debate about blues versus
gospel as the more pure form of
black music? There are some
who say that gospel is the prima-
ry wellspring of a lot of great
American musical forms.

Aaron: “It is but blues is also.
Blues is the roots for all music. {tis
parallel with country music
because it tells the story of life.
Heartaches, triumphs, betrayal.
The real stuff. (im composing a
blues tune now called Ten Years di
LA. It's gonna tell some of the
blues [ went through in the past 10
dars. LA, is-a tough town, With
the blues you can draw on your
own experiences and out it to
rhyme."

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