Busker Days: T.T. Fingers - Dust My Broom

I came across veteran busker T.T. Fingers last year on a Market Street corner. He plays a mean blues on a homemade lap steel guitar. He told me he and a friend made it one night in '87 drinking chimay and he has used it ever since. Apparently someone had stolen is previous guitar. For years he worked the busker circuit in Europe and gigged a bit too. I'm not sure how he got the name T.T. Fingers but I suspect it has something to do with him having only two fingers. That's right two fingers. Total. Take that Django! He uses the two fingers for plucking and gets around the whole fretting issue by ignoring frets altogether and strapping a slide on the end of his arm. Listen to this nice, big-hearted guy tearin' up some blues with his take on Elmore James's Dust My Broom!

Earlier days gigging in Belgium in the '70s:

Until next time, Flip-Side!

Busker Days: "Anywhere in Love", The Ferocious Few

As I approached my usual stairway down to Montgomery BART the other day I was distracted by some noise from across the street.  Sounded like music.  What I found were two guys cranking out some hard-driving rock and roll with Market Street as their backdrop.  They go by the name Ferocious Few and consist of Daniel Aguilar on drums and tambourine and Francisco Fernandez on guitar and vocals.  Here's their number Anywhere in Love.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.