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"Then, in 1915, a small group of slaves from the cotton fields of Louisiana, who were on a whistle-stop tour of Europe for their vacation just happened to hear Nigel one evening while he was performing in cabaret at the Ritz, where they were staying. The rest is history."

True enough, true enough......

It was a very near thing though - because I read somewhere that their plane almost crashed on the return trip. The pilot had food poisoning and a flight attendant had to land the plane. That heroic flight attendant deserves as much credit as anyone for the the blues, imho.

Scott