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Question: He talks about how Mexico would be a cleaner place if the 90 mil maids in Mexico would all just pick up one piece of trash... He also jokes about conveniently passing his in-laws house by about 2 hours. I can not find this CD online anywhere!
Answer: The White Album, recorded in 1999.
Try http://lewisblack.shop.musictoday.com/Pr oduct.aspx?pc=8LCD03
This is the truest thing Lewis Black has ever said.... which is why it's so damn funny.
"It was a trial-by-fire kinda thing, like on stage it took a while to figure out what makes yourself sound good," he says on the phone from somewhere in Northern California on his way to Portland with his six-piece band the Honeybears.
"And if you play enough shows then you end up figuring out what you're doing."
It's as if Lewis hasn't really thought too much about how he came to be making this sort of music, except that it's just the way it's meant to be - and that music is a gift that he has been given.
"I just play music and it sounds the way it does. It's just something that happens, you know. It's just one of those things, when you've got it you've got it, when you don't you don't."
The 30-year-old is a fan of old-style blues like Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson and Lightnin' Hopkins. He started getting into this sort of music in his late teens when he was trying to expand his musical tastes beyond Memphis soul and garage punk from Detroit.
"I just like the way it sounds," he says of the blues.
Comedian Lewis Black coming to Von Braun Center; tickets on sale Dec. 1
Lewis is a comedy veteran who is best known for his "Back in Black" rants on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and hosting "The Root of all Evil" on the same network. Tickets go on sale at 10 am Dec. 1 and are $29.50, $39.50 and $64.50 for reserved ...
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Black Joe Lewis: Blues brother
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