[Dixielandjazz] Billy Banks characteristic blues

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

who can forget Billy Banks with Bechet --- and the poetry of the song 

Characteristic Blues 

"it was only a bedbug making his last go round!"
and the yodelling! 
and the most joyous clarinet playing

I seem to remember some now departed seniors reminiscing about Banks doing a female impersonator act in London long ago, and with a handkerchief on his head ... 
Billy Banks remains a wonderful encouragement of sanity!

Robert Calder