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'Ssippi Blues' was written in New Orleans, just before Katrina. SSippi is an A-major, 12-bar blues adaptation. It uses a small stage set of Fender lead guitar and rhythm guitar, Fender bass, standard drum set, and the twirling Leslie speakers of a Hammond B3 organ. This song was inspired by a visit to the French Quarter one February night. And morning. Not much of any particular detail can be recalled. But one memory did remain, the blues, the sense and power of it. The comfort of it. The blues that night, in that quarter, is forever etched in my memory