<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p>usually it's been a surprise Caughey was pronounced Coshie, rather than Coshie being spelled Caughey.</p><p>The man who lost one of the several jobs Earle Warren took over in the classic Basie band. No insult Earle Warren was preferred to you. I remember another of their contemporaries being interviewed on BBC Radio, astonished that the interviewer could have any doubt that once out of the army Earle would be back with Basie.</p><p><br></p><p>I met Earle in Edinburgh in 1983, and told him a local journalist had suggested he was a Benny Carter stylist ...</p><p><br></p><p>After protesting that the guy was probably young, Earle boldly demurred and added "BUT HE HAS NOT INSULTED ME."</p><p><br></p><p>There was a broadcast I taped, Benny Waters producing his alto "where you get that old thing?" Earle asked, but the tape I have was matched on the different gig I attended. </p><p>I told Earle I had heard his previous visit to Scotland years before (Willie Smith had died back then) and the guy who likened his playing too much to Benny Carter was saying he thought this was Earle's first visit.</p><p><br></p><p>"Hell," says Earle, " I play golf at St. Andrews all the time!"</p><p><br></p><p>No doubt in better than Fore! Fore!</p><p><br></p><p>Streamline comes out as a sort of virtuoso Ike Rodgers on a recording where Lightnin' Hopkins plays a little slide guitar. </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfVD0aKf9Y">Lightnin' Hopkins Dillon's Store (1965) - YouTube</a><br></p><p><br></p><p>I just checked it out on You Tube,</p><p><br></p><p>all the very best,</p><p>Robert R. Calder</p></div></body></html>