1.   I imagine that some readers shrieked with horror when I cited Ethel Waters as a great blues singer several paragraphs back.

2.   Keith Richards is a great blues guitarist.

3.   One big problem is that the AFC produces great quarterbacks like Lithuania produces great blues guitarists.

4.   Plenty of musicians have played great blues guitar before, and since, but Stevie was special.

5.   The vocalist and harmonica player was born in Chicago, where he was influenced by the great blues musicians who performed in the city.