Logically, when you talkin’ about folk music and blues, you find out it’s music of just plain people.
—-Brownie McGhee

An F hole tattoo – A perfect back tattoo for a washtub string bass (sometimes called a gutbucket bass) player in a street band in the French Quarter.

Back Tattoo in a street band.

Playing the Gutbucket Bass and the Washboard.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
—-Mark Knopfler

Le Violon d’Ingres (Ingres’s Violin)

Man Ray
American, 1924
Gelatin silver print

“You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for business

That’s why they’re called business socks

It’s business, it’s business time”

―— Flight of the Conchords