DJ Hairy Larry Presents Delta Legends Playing I’m Your Professor
From the Archives Of Something Blue 2026-11-15
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some Delta Blues recorded live at Blues Fest.
Delta Legends, John Shepherd, Mark Fender, Ben Ben Adler, Hairy Larry
It was September 27, 2026, at the Craighead Forest Bandshell. You guessed it! Blues Fest. Delta Legends was closing Blues Fest for 2026 featuring
John Shepherd, guitar and vocals
Mark Fender, bass
Ben Ben Adler, drums and vocals
and
Hairy Larry, harmonica and vocals
and we were up for it. Just a week earlier we had played at the Arkansas Roots Stage at the Beatles At The Ridge Festival in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. We were on a roll.
We stepped up and we recorded an album, “Whodo Da Voodoo”, starting with Delta Blues classics and ending with Jimi Hendrix. I play a harmonica feedback solo at the end of “All Along The Watchtower”.
For the podcast today I picked “I’m Your Professor”, a song I learned from Sam Myers that was written by Ron Levy and appeared on “Rack ‘Em Up” by Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets. He used to play with the Rockets at the King Biscuit Blues Festival every year. I just had to bring the song back to Jonesboro, because, ASU, where we have a few professors.
Myers was born in Laurel, Mississippi but like many Delta musicians he moved to Chicago where he played with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Elmore James.
“Myers played drums with Elmore James on a fairly steady basis from 1952 until James’s death, in 1963, and is credited on many of James’s historic recordings for Chess Records. In 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, “Sleeping in the Ground”, a song that has been covered by Blind Faith, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and many other blues artists”
– wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers
So now, here’s “I’m Your Professor”, a song I learned from Sam Myers, as played by Delta Legends at Blues Fest 2026.
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And that’s “I’m You Professor” from the new Delta Legends album, “Whodo da Voodoo”. Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 to hear more Delta Legends, and Soulive with John Scofield and Luther Dickinson.
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This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Soulive and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
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