Kind Hearted Woman Blues part 6

 Having done the most recent print last week, my plan for now is to print the proofs of the two previous Robert Johnson prints, so that I will have the last 3 available for a future exhibition.  And I see on this blog a copy of Kind Hearted Woman Blues, minus the lyrics, which is what I need for framing.   Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sign of it when I got up to the Studio, so I had to make another one, and I decided that was the one I would do today.  I started by removing the blue tape and cutting away a few unwanted marks.  Then I re-inked the block and taped up the mistakes, needing much less tape than I had taken off.  Printing it took more time than I liked, but the results were solid.  Like the last time, it's not perfect, but good enough to slap it into a frame and put it up on the wall, whenever I need it.  Results from today are below:

While printing this proof up, I was listening to more recently recovered music from my storage space.  I started with Straight Ahead, the first solo album by Greg Sage, from 1985.  I've written about Sage and the Wipers (his band, made of anyone he found to play with in those years) before, but never about Sage as a solo artist.  In a way, this is the first thing I ever heard from him, played on a friend's show after she heard it on another show.  I probably borrowed that record from the DJ archives at Montclair State, putting it on tape, and later burning it to the disc I found recently.  I don't have a list of songs, though I think I am familiar with a few from a 1990 compilation album called The Best of the Wipers and Greg Sage, which mixed music from his band and (at the time) one solo record.  Not surprisingly, some of the songs on this album sound like they could have been at home on a Wipers album, while some, especially on what would have been side 2 of the record, are a bit more atmospheric.  Like the Wipers, good music to listen to while working on art.  When that disc ended, I put on another recently retrieved from storage, much of the 1989 album So Far So What from the Pheromones, another thing I found at Montclair State's radio station.  I wrote about it extensively on this blog back in 2021 if you want to know more.  (someone posted the whole album to YouTube so I have listened to it from time to time, including the songs I didn't tape and put on this disc)  However, I didn't have the disc, so I couldn't listen to it in the Studio, until this came home from storage.  The disc also includes some live in the station (WNEW-FM) recordings from Matthew Sweet and Del Amitri, stuff I had taped and threw on the disc, which the radio station was playing a lot of as it was winding down.  However, I finished my cleaning and left without hearing it today.