Cross Roads Blues part 13

 Various things kept me from getting to the Studio yesterday, and today's speech therapy was a little later that it had been, so I decided to get up to the Studio a little early this morning and proof another block for the possible print fair next month.  (I did some searching on the internet, and found there is a major print fair coming up toward the end of March, which may suit my current schedule) 

One thing I found was that Molly had been there.  I didn't see her, but I did see evidence that she had been there and used the space.  Since she wasn't there, I switched the boom box from radio to CD, and I had my rock/pop book with me, and selected my Gun Club disc.  This is the whole first album, Fire of Love, plus I filled the rest of the disc with some live tracks from a disc I got in St Louis on a trip there in grad school many years ago, a disc you can read about on this blog back in November of 2019.  Though not acoustic, the Gun Club does seem to me more like Robert Johnson that anything else I have that's not acoustic blues. 

My new plan for today was to pull a proof of the Cross Roads Blues print, with the lyrics.  This is the second proof like this I have done, having made one for the sale to Virginia last year.  But I don't have that one any more, so now I will have one.  Below is the results of today's session:

The cutting I did the other day helped, and there wasn't much to pick up unwanted ink, though cutting out old stuff always means new things to pick up ink, so I used less tape that I had taken off, but had to use some in my printing process.  Obviously, it worked out.

Like the last one I did, this may be the best proof of the image I have ever done, and it includes the lyrics which help explain what I have done and why I created the image.  I believe I wrote before that many associate this song with the Crossroads legend that Johnson is known for, but nothing about that is mentioned in this song, nor is it mentioned in any of the songs he recorded, even though that incident would have taken place before he recorded anything.  I interpreted some actual lyrics from the song, and I think it works.

That's now two done for the show, which I still know nothing about.  Meanwhile I cleaned up my ink, put everything in my drying rack to continue drying, and locked up.  Had time to get home, change clothes, eat a little lunch, and get to my appointment on time.