Short Attention Span Friday
Fun Facts Gleaned From a Night of Comcast OnDemand Television Viewing Viewed to Quiet Those Getting Louder Voices Coming From the Walls of My Empty Home

Junior Kimbrough has 28 children, and he isn't even a member of the Saudi Royal Family.

Fat Possum honchos can giggle it up with R.L. Burnside about the time R.L. shot a man in the back of the head and only had to serve six months, tricking the judge into believing that somehow a shot to the back of the head could be delivered in self-defense.

Junior Kimbrough paid his band members $3.25 per diem on his European tour.

T. Model Ford has very few teeth. He did not pick up the guitar until he was 58, when his wife left him.

Cedell Davis had malaria, polio, malaria again, and was later trampled by a crowd desperately trying to escape gunfire in a small club. His body is nearly useless to him, but he relearned the guitar by turning it upside down and developing a slide style with a butter knife.

Johnny Farmer is convinced that when he finally relented and made a record, his subsequent bad health was payback for his willingness to play for somebody other than himself.

R.L. Burnside's grandson played drums for him.

Junior Kimbrough dissed Bono. "U2? Me too? Whatever," was how he greeted him.

Junior Kimbrough called Iggy Pop "lollipop" when they toured together.

Marc Bolan played part of a 1972 concert sitting yogi style.

T. Rex played "Summertime Blues" as an encore, and it did not suck. Astonishing.

T. Rex's bongo, maracas and tambourine player is shockingly handsome.

T. Rex's teenage girl crowd looked to be having the longest orgasm in video history.