You and I first met last year up here in Sacramento when you played on my good friend Sat Bisla’s Passport Approved tour. Hamish, thank you for your time and it’s a pleasure to speak with you again. The blues will live on as long as it is in the very capable hands of young master musicians like Hamish Anderson. With “The King of the Blues” now gone, it is up to upstarts like Anderson to uphold the tradition of the genre while assuring that the future of the blues is secure. That was something I’ll always remember.” I remember afterwards them picking up “Lucille” and walking it literally straight past me, like so close that I could touch it. He still had a really great command over the band and that night he was really on form. “I was standing at the side of the stage watching him play. “For me I think the best moment was the first show we did in Phoenix,” Anderson recalled during our recent conversation. Hamish Anderson, the 23-year old Australian singer-songwriter-guitar master who recently released his second EP, Restless, had the honor of being the opening act on the undisputed King of the Blues’ final run of concert dates. King, who was one of the last links to the genre’s group of greats who directly influenced so many current and classic blues rock guitarists. Blues fans were dealt a devastating blow with the recent passing of the irreplaceable B.B.
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