VLVL2 (15): Epigraph

[joeallonby]

on 5/29/04 11:55 PM, Tim Strzechowski at dedalus204 at comcast.net wrote:

Every dog has his day,
and a good dog
   just might have two days.
 
                 -- Johnny Copeland
 

Any fresh thoughts on the meaning of this epigraph, now that we've finished
the novel?
 
Does it relate in any way to the themes we've explored?
 
Or maybe he just thought Johnny Copeland was cool. I know I did. Showdown!
is one of the best guitar records ever made. The African stuff is pretty
cool too. (Clarence Gatemouth Brown also did a lot of "world music" way
ahead of the hippies.) I once saw Johnny play with Arthur Blythe as his alto
sax player. The famous "out" jazz man seemed perfectly happy to play uptempo
jump blues in a style some would find limiting with the masterful Texas
Twister. They did a cover of Jeff Beck's Come Dancing that was on fire.


<http://www.cascadeblues.org/History/JohnnyCopeland.htm>

<http://www.cascadeblues.org/Legends/JohnnyCopeland/JCopeland.htm>



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