Smokey Wilson showing us the cabbage ---- behind the bar at his Pioneer Club, one of my watering holes, 88th &amp; Vermont, Watts, Los Angeles -- 1978 photo by Mark Weber ---- Smokey could really tear up a guitar, this was blues of the hard-bitten and gritty variety,  a beer &amp; wine establishment he kept a whisky bottle in  his office so that during breaks (when he wasn't on stage) we'd go back for a little nip ---- When he came  to Albuquerque on tour in 1995 playing at El Madrid I hadn't seen Smoke in many years and when  I walked up he shouted &quot;Johnny Walker Red! Where you been?&quot;