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vocal stuff and I left and he continued working on it, adding things to it and we got friends involved,
and before we knew it, we had this product and we were really excited about it and had tours

planned. We were going to be at the New Orleans Jazz and
Heritage Festival and Juke Joint Festival and all that got
cancelled, but we still went ahead and released it in the middle
of the pandemic [chuckling]. We’re real proud of it, and we’re
happy about it and we’d probably like to do something again
together.

BiTS: Happy with a great deal of justification, you’ll know
because I’ve played it very regularly on my radio shows. I think
it’s absolutely terrific.

LRW: Thank you. I appreciate that so much and Bert does too.

BiTS: When are you planning to get back to work? Are there

any gigs that are being organised at the moment?

LRW: There are gigs being organised and I could probably do something right now but like I said,
I’m not interested in putting myself in a small bar with people, or even I might consider an outside
event if everybody was distanced properly and all that but I just don’t feel the need. I just think
living is a lot more important right now [laughing].

BiTS: . What are your plans for the future once this COVID thing is out of the way? Are you planning
to do another record with Bert? I think that’s what you said.

LRW: Well, I would love to. Bert and I would love to do that. Our plan is, especially if these things

that they’re giving for COVID start to be effective, next year things should open back up and if the
vaccine is available people will be out and I’m hoping that we will be back. Bert will be coming over.
We’ll do the Juke Joint Fest, and we’ll do the New Orleans Jazz Fest just like we’d planned this year.
We’ve just got to see when we can get Bert back over here and once we do that, we can maybe work
on another album.

BITS: Let’s call it a day, Libby Rae. It’s been great talking to you.

LRW: Okay, that’s fine, that’s good. I appreciate it so much, Ian. It was great talking to you.

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