I'm Damned Aggravated and Howlin Wolf

So Aggravated...

For starters my POS computer CPU light is on all the time and can't seem to handle doing anything more than Microsoft Calculator before it's starts acting like a complete POS.

They make better comptuers, and then Microsoft, RealPlayer, Spysweeper, Norton, McAfee, Winzip, and every other vendor juices up there software so we're back at square one in terms of efficiency and speed.

Sorry, that was just the last straw.

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Some times the only thing that keeps me sane is the Bluesman Howlin' Wolf.

I just bought another CD at the used CD store. I can tell you that in my part of the country Blues is not really popular.

So I am listening to the Wolf minister to me with lyrics like:

"I have had my fun if I never get well no more,"

and

"I didn't mean to do you no harm."

Wolf, you never did me no harm.

The best buy I ever made was a Howlin Wolf Remastered Gold CD (which I bought for about $8, now they go for around $100). Some of the tunes on this, loaded with harmonica, guitar, bass, and of course, the Wolf, are in such perfect synchrony that, to me, I smile and suddenly I feel like I am somewhere in the sweltering Southern Delta listening to this band, which has now melded into a set of lungs pumping air through the vocal chord of SOUL. The guitar groans and I feel like I can feel the years of senseless toil, heartbreak, discontent, weariness, untiring weariness. But more than just the expression of these, it is a catharsis - a release of all these things that drag a man down, letting them roll off of your nose like a drop of sweat.

Sing it Wolf