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An interview with Bob Koester, conducted by Cary Baker circa 1982!

An interview with Bob Koester, conducted by Cary Baker circa 1982!

“I met Willie on many occasions — the first of which is when I cold-called him out of the Chicago phone book and asked him to come to my high school radio station.” Cary Baker

With “Boundless Love” for John Prine, who died on this day two years ago.

“I think of people like Cary and me as artists of the spoken word. We’re plying the same depths as the artists we’re privileged to get to know. Our job is represent them as real people, not product.”

“I had a pretty good memory of this material, but when I actually heard it again I was delighted that it really is great.  Sam was always strangely unconcerned about stardom, but he was a star anyway.  When you play the record, you’ll see what I mean.” – Mitch Easter

“Bob could usually be found behind the counter. And he took hours over the years to answer my ceaseless barrage of questions — about blues artists, blues bars (which I was too young to enter legally), record labels, record distribution, record collecting.” – Cary Baker

“I don’t want to have to share a name with you… I wanted my name. All I ever wanted was to keep my name in the blues genre doing what I did.”