In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, motivation, passion, Nat Blythe, adventures of a ballad hunter, George Lyman Kittredge, Cowboy Songs, John Avery Lomax, Henry Lebermann, Uncle Rich Brown, Muddy Waters, Son Simms, interview Muddy at Stovall's Plantation, Son Simms Four, Bruce Jackson, wake Up Dead Man, Tim Duffy, Eric Clapton, Axel Küstner, Michael Roach, …