Bluebird bluebird please take a letter down south for me...

My friend who went with me to Galveston this past weekend to visit the Old Quarter Cafe, well he works for Comcast and he got to work inside of Milton Hopkins house. He had no idea who he was until he went inside of the room where he kept all his guitars and they started talking about music. That's when my friend brought up Blaze Foley and Milton started talking about how he knew him and had met him a couple times. He told my friend he was a jazz blues musician and even signed him a CD. My friend called me freaking out and when he told me his last name was Hopkins I had to find out if he was related to Sam Lightnin' Hopkins. And much to my amaze, he is Lightnin' Hopkins cousin. Milton has toured with Marvin Gaye, Lou Rawish, Sam Cooke, and was the rhythm guitarist for B.B. King for eight years. It's crazy that this happened because we just got to talk to Rex Blues and he got to play bass for Lighnin' and Townes Van Zandt was greatly influenced by Lightnin' and I just feel like this connects with everything that's been happening these past few months. As if it's is manifesting itself piece by piece right in front of me...Milton gave my friend his card and told him if he ever needed a guitar lesson to call him up if he's available. I'm determined to meet Milton and hear a few of his stories. Sunday he's having a show and I'm already excited to go.