EVERYTHING GONNA BE ALRIGHT by BIG MAMA THORNTON Story by Rijn Collins
In 2014 I applied for a one-month writing residency in Ólafsfjörður, a remote Icelandic fishing village near the Arctic Circle. To my shock, I was accepted within the week.
CRAWLING KING SNAKE by ETTA JAMES Story by Rijn Collins
I think of my past snakes, all those blue eyes and banjos over the years, the late night knocks and needs that kept my heart shielded and my eyes always on the door.
Born in Chicago by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Story by Luke R Davies
Luke R Davies Cambridge Park, western suburbs of Sydney. Early 1980s. It blew me away and blew me straight into the local music shop to get one of those blues harps.