This past weekend just left me stunned musically. On Friday night Laura and I went to see The Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor at a small bar that held maybe 150 people. There’s no experience quite like standing not 10 feet from a 70-year-old woman singing Chicago blues. Then, to make the weekend even more amazing, on Sunday night Laura, Shane, and Gwynneth (Laura’s 11-year-old daughter) went to see The King of the Blues, B. B. King with maybe 1500 people. This was in a concert hall and we were in the 13th row, just off center. A few hours with King, currently 79, singing Delta Blues was a spectacular contrast to the music of Friday night. Top this all of with the fact that it was Gwynneth’s first “real concert” and I got to buy her her first “concert t-shirt” I can’t say I’ve had a better weekend in quite a while.
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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