I remember as a kid coming home after school, grabbing a sandwich and watching MTV before my paper route. They played that video a fair bit and I went out and got that CD; still have it. I suspect a lot of metal heads like me got drug back to blues through his music.
Love his guitar style.
He's one I would have liked to have seen live. I need to pick up some of his stuff off iTunes, methinks.
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand." James Elroy Flecker
Dood! You are the MAN! A local college station had a Metal show every Tuesday night from 9:00 - Midnight back in the '80s and I discovered these guys there. They never hit it big like Stryper but I still spin that CD a lot. Wore out my original cassette!
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
...here are a few that I used to jam to as a fundie youth group member...
Barren Cross was like the Christian Iron Maiden. The Crucified was a little too punk for my taste, but Bloodgood is still kickin' it ever so often, with Sir Oz Fox joining in on guitar:
