Roger was also at the organizational meeting of the Suncoast Blues Society to offer advice and has always been a big supporter of the Suncoast Blues Society. So my friend suggested, “how about the Blues Stalker?” That is how the moniker was claimed and over the years Roger and I have become blues buddies colliding on the blues highway frequently. I had also told him the story of seeing Roger and him accusing me of “stalking” me. Months later, when I had begun writing for the Suncoast Blues Society’s newsletter Twelve Bar Rag (1997) I told a colleague that I needed a pen name to write under. On the third day, he asked me jokingly (?) “Are you stalking me?” So, in 3 days in 3 different states, we collided. The next evening I was in Oxford and he was playing at a venue on the square there and I showed up to hear him. I spent the night with my sister in Atlanta and we went to a coffee house in Marietta and Roger was playing there. The next day I was on my way to Oxford, Mississippi, to engage in a Florida Humanities Council scholarship to study the history of blues music at ‘Ole Miss. In fact, Roger is responsible for my pen name, “the Blues Stalker.” I had seen Roger play in Florida one of those Sunday afternoons. I first heard Roger play guitar at a local pub that a friend owned who held live music shows on Sunday afternoons for musicians traveling back from gigs in South Florida. My relationship with Roger “Hurricane” Wilson goes back about 25 years.
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