Deep Blues Festival 2010 – Mark “Porkchop” Holder, Chattanooga TN
Mark “Porkchop” Holder: “The blues is a religon. You can hear it and feel just like you feel in church. Your head will bow, your eyes will close, hair will stand up on your arm. I can play it. I can make you feel it. I can. I was born in the country and raised up in town. I’m natural born able to shake’em on down. People call me Porkchop because I used to be fatter than I am now. I used to play slide guitar and harmonica and sing in a band called the Black Diamond Heavies, but the time came for that to end. I’m just 33 and I don’t mind dying. I had the world’s best Momma and the world’s meanest Dad. I try to be a good boy but sometimes I’m bad. Playing guitar saved my life and now it’s trying to kill me, but I just won’t die. Hell, I’m not even sick … I’ve done things that other people haven’t, and gone places some people can’t go. I’m sober. I try to not to assume that people have to be smarter or know more than me for me to learn something from them. Sometimes this approach works. I like people, often from a distance. Good night, God bless, and as always thank you for shopping at my K-mart.”
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Deep Blues Festival 2009 outside venue, The Cabooze – Mark “Porkchop” Holder – Peter Lee photo
