KFFA Radio-- Show 15, 643

I am so happy I went to Helena, Arkansas on May 7, 2008!  Stumbled upon many interesting people and made it my mission to do as Honeyboy said "listen more than you talk".  Good advice.  I did just that in Helena and met Sonny Payne (announcer pictured above) who has been host of KFFA "King Biscuit Time" , a blues program, for much of his 80+ years.  In fact, he was doing a live show when I wandered in off the street and there he was interviewing Rhonda Rogers who was an absolutely fantastic blues woman from North Carolina.  Pipes on that chick or what?  Anyhow, it was Sonny's 15,643rd show and he has seen more than a book full of blues events.  KFFA is an historic radio program that broadcast 'black' blues music in the 1930's when that was completely unheard of.  King Biscuit Flour sponsored the program and their musical hosts were Sonny Boy Williamson II and Robert Lockwood Jr. (stepson of Robert Johnson).  I even signed the walls where all the blues musicians that have passed through the studio in its current location have signed.  It was such a blast!  

15,700th show maybe an on air interview with Kat Danser??  Never know...;-)

Kat