The Blues Revue appeared in the mail today and along with it a sampler CD. These are always fun. The songs offer a great variety, from Delta acoustic to funk to Chicago and west coast style. Quite often there are reviews of someone's new CD in the magazine and a song from the CD on the sampler. And sometimes the reviews are not too kind. A case in point was the new CD from Deborah Coleman. She has just moved to Telarc and the reviewer said that he hoped this would be a breakthrough for her career but this was not to be. Well, what do I know? The cut on the sampler was an instrumental entitled The River Wild. It has the feel of swamp music and I was fascinated with it. So I guess I either don't know anything about blues music, only know what I like. If the rest of her CD is anywhere close to being as good, I'll be satisfied.