Booker T. Jones fields a question from David Gogo

Before I called up Booker T. Jones for an interview in advance of his upcoming show at the Vogue I sent out a tweet asking if anybody had a question for the American music great. 

The only follower who responded was Nanaimo blues-rocker David Gogo--who, by the way, was just nominated for a Juno for his latest album, Vicksburg Call. 

"Ask him if he ever breaks out the trombone in concert any more," suggested Gogo, so I did.

"I sent that trombone to New Orleans after the flood," explained Jones. "I'm good friends with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band down there, and they told me that a lotta the kids lost their instruments in the flood. I wasn't usin' them--they were in my garage--so I sent them down there. And that's where they still are."

For more from Booker T. Jones--answering questions that I actually thought up myself--see the story in this week's issue of the Georgia Straight.

Read it on paper for that old-school Booker T. & the M.G.'s vibe.