DJ Hairy Larry Presents Delta Legends Playing Messin With The Kid
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-12-07
Delta Legends – Mr. John B. Shepherd
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Chicago Blues Classic played by Delta Legends.
When I was a young man, a long long time ago, I went to see The Paul Butterfield Blues Band play at The Cellar in Arlington Heights. I had been playing folk music and blues on acoustic guitar for years but that performance pushed me over the line and the next day I was buying a used electric bass and amplifier. I started a band called Plough and we played rock, blues, and blues-rock.
Like everyone back then I had been listening to the Paul Butterfield albums. I was a little ahead of the curve on Butter because my brother was at the University of Chicago when he was playing on the south side and he brought the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album to the house.
But then there was a new album out called “Chicago/The Blues/Today!” with a great Junior Wells song, “Messin’ With The Kid”. Playing with Junior Wells was a young Chess Records session guitarist, Buddy Guy. Junior Wells was raised in West Memphis, Arkansas, so, like many blues musicians, he went from Arkansas to Chicago. A few years later I did the opposite and went from Chicago to Arkansas.
So here we are and I’m playing songs from the first Paul Butterfield album and “Messin With The Kid”, that I first sang over 50 years ago, with Delta Legends in Arkansas.
On November 21, 2025, Delta Legends recorded an album called “Mr. John B. Shepherd”. Playing on the album are John Shepherd, guitar; David McCulley, bass; Ben Ben Adler, drums; and I’m on harmonica and vocals. All fine outstanding Arkansas musicians.
We did “Blues With A Feeling”, “Born In Chicago”, “Messin’ With The Kid”, and other great Chicago Blues songs. You can take the boy out of Chicago but you can’t take chicaga’ out of the boy. When I started to sing everything came roaring back.
So now, recorded outside of Wynne, Arkansas, on November 21, 2025, here’s Delta Legends playing “Messin’ With The Kid”.
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And that’s Delta Legends playing “Messin’ With The Kid” recorded on November 21, 2025. Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00, to hear more Chicago Blues from Delta Legends, Dr. Zs Experiment, and King Baby.
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