It was just what I needed. Exhausted from creating and hosting the First Annual Anti-Communist Film Festival, I saw a live music notice. Robert Lighthouse, a Swedish blues singer, was playing at Hank Dietle’s tavern, a juke joint in Maryland. Dietle’s was described by writer Eddie Dean: “The bar is a dimly lit, one-room, linoleum-floored clubhouse with dark wood-paneled walls cheered by strings of low-watt holiday bulbs. The feel is midcentury rec-room deluxe, a cozy time capsule from the era when Elvis dwelt among us.”
Perfect. A dude from Sweden with a guitar singing Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and R.L. Burnside. I was feeling vulnerable, but not in a bad or desperate way. I’d put a huge amount of work into the film festival, managing licensing, promotional material and blog posts, and staying in a cheap and scary old hotel because I wasn’t being paid. I needed some soul and TLC. Music that was gentle in a place full of people who are the same. There was too much rage online, too many hysterical leftists and too many people on the right ranting about Jews and calling for televised public executions. I needed the restorative humanity blues.
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