Another Magic Night At Rosa's
by
Charles K. Cowdery
 

 

Slam Allen and New Napkins

September 18, 1999
    Rosa's has new napkins. As you probably have noticed, all bar napkins are supplied by cigarette companies. Napkins are cheap, but cigarette company napkins are free so most bars use them, especially bars where a napkin is just a napkin.

 

Mama Rosa's Birthday Party
March 4, 1999

    Thursday was Mama Rosa's birthday party (a day before the actual event).
There was supposed to be food and I saw evidence of it (submarine
sandwiches, I think) but it was all gone before I got there. Lurrie...

Piano C. Red at Maxwell St.
    This story involves a different Red, Piano C. Red, a longtime blues guy
here in Chicago who has played frequently on Maxwell Street.
 

First Time I heard Lurrie
Another raid on the archives produced these notes about the first time I
heard Lurrie Bell at Rosa's, on Tuesday, May 6, 1997.

by Charles K. Cowdery


 
 

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