In all the photos I could find of this smooth blues pianist he's always giving a big laid back grin, which doesn't really reflect the mood of some of his classics, so here's hopefully what he looks like the rest of the time...
Preparation for this comic strip involved watching Elvis's Blue Hawaii, a film with a similar feel to "Can't wait for tommorow" another collaboration with Paul O'Connell...
For the last few years I've kept meaning to draw some portraits of blues artists. A friend recently asked for a pic of Mississippi Fred McDowell, the master blues slide player. Here is a cartoonish attempt and maybe the start of a series of artists...