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Let’s suppose I ever make it to be big famous as either a writer or musician (the verdict is still out on that) outside of all the well-known artists that inspired me like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, John Coltrane, and The Misfits to name a few. In that case, there’s one artist that had an immediate and significant impact.
Boy Blue
John Blankenship/Nightingale/Camp Scout John or otherwise is a musicianer from Pontiac Michigan, a contemporary artist on the face of what I once coined “The Grays” — A parallel to the blues but in the 2020s. It’s specifically his mix of Blues, Jazz, R&B, Folk, and a tinge of chaos. Boy is riding a wave of success in the Metro Detroit Area. He is a close friend of mine, and I’m sure when you listen to his music, he’ll be your close friend too, or at the very least, your favorite artist, he is mine.
The details of our friendship have likely been covered and will be recovered tenfold throughout my life and my writing (career?). We became friends all because of Funkadelic, I was humming the song “Loose Booty, he immediately identified the song and we’ve been tight ever since. Early in our friendship, he invited me to see his band at the time (The Stuckups) in a local battle of the bands in Fraser…
