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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Freddy’s Blues
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-11-02

Hairy Larry Live at the Delta Dirt Distillery

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear someone called Hairy Larry playing at the King Biscuit Blues Festival.

I met Gregg Cook in Clarksdale, Mississipi, during the Sunflower Blues Festival in 1990. We were both dancing. It’s surprising how many of my Biscuit friends I met dancing or playing music around a campfire.

I was talking to Gregg last year about where I could play jazz piano during The Biscuit and he suggested that I talk to Thomas at the Delta Dirt Distillery. So I did and I played last year and this year. It’s a great venue for me, an upscale piano bar with a festival audience that’s there for the music.

My Friday show was a little uneven but on Saturday I played the best solo show I’ve ever played with tons of improvisation. I played extended versions of four standards and four originals, I recorded audio and video, and I released a video on Youtube and an album, Hairy Larry “Live at the Delta Dirt Distillery”.

I’ll be playing two more songs from the album on Something Blue this week and I will leave links to the video and the album on the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

I didn’t see Gregg at The Biscuit, this year, but I did see him in Marvell, Arkansas, the next weekind at the Levon Helm Down Home Jubilee. I would like to say that ended my festival season this year but I actually continued until Halloween when my family and friends played campfire music in my front yard.

I picked a song I wrote, “Freddy’s Blues” for Arkansas Roots, because it’s a story song with a funny lyric and when I play it solo I scat sing the horn parts. I hope you find it entertaining.

So now, recorded live at The Delta Dirt Distillery in Helena, Arkansas, on October 11, 2025, here’s someone they call Hairy Larry singing “Freddy’s Blues”.

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And that’s me playing my song, “Freddy’s Blues”. Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00, to hear more songs from my new album as well as Mike Stern and Howl Quartet.

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This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Mike Stern, Howl Quartet, and Hairy Larry. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

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