Brings to mind the ‘Flashdance’ line, “When you lose your dream you die!” What if you have more than one dream though? What was John Fahey expecting when he went to visit him in the hospital? When you’re in the hospital you’re always going to be shitty to people, it can’t be helped. They’re leaving and you’re staying in there. Skip James plays piano on some tracks and guitar on others. This is weird for old blues guys because usually they do one thing or the other. This is a good album to listen to when you realise that your ‘dream’ is what’s actually been killing you. Unfortunately by that point your electricity’s run out so you can’t actually ‘listen’. Country-blues albums are great for that though because all you have to do is look at the song titles and you’re already singing your own country blues songs, in the dark! And once the power comes back on and you decide to record them you can’t because due to the power being restored you don’t feel so shitty anymore! This record’s incredible. It sounds like he’s done a lot of bad shit to people, and he knows it’s wrong, but what can he do? Soon I’ll be on a plane, so I can’t complain.