This typist was saddened to hear that Dutch Mason - singer, guitarist, consummate bluesman and prime minister of the blues - died yesterday in Truro, NS. Dubbed PM of the Blues by King of the Blues BB King, Dutchy played the bar circuit in Nova Scotia and across Canada since the 1950s. This typist recalls seeing his thickened arthritis-riddled fingers clasping a microphone as he belted out tunes in many of those bars in the 80s and 90s.
And when the arthritis claimed the rest of him, Dutchy was still up there on stage in his wheelchair singing the blues. He was the blues.
We'll miss him.
