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I posted a video of Jorma Kaukonen playing "Hesitation Blues" on Facebook the other day. Since then I've been learning to finger pick it myself.

So today I'm leaving the thrift store and I see a guy playing for tips in front of the tobacco shop. I approach him while he tunes up. He has short gray hair, thick-lensed wire rim glasses, and long, smoke stained teeth shooting out of his mouth in various directions.

I nod hello as I drop a dollar in his opened guitar case and squat beside him. He nods back and starts finger picking "Hesitation Blues."

Now, I attach no significant meaning to any of this, other than whatever meaning lies inherent in the experience itself. But f*ck-me-runnin, does anyone else find this a bit odd?