Two weeks ago my friend Javi Calvo invited me to go to the little village of Cedeira. to hear “When a man loves a woman” played by the original author -the soul legend Percy Sledge. The event: American Roots Festival of Cedeira.
Of course we attended to a great concert, but when we didn’t got surprised because it, we really wondered with the concert after. The Big Four, a Belgian-Dutch quartet of blues played with 81 years old sax Big Jay McNeely and harmonicist Mark Tortorici three hours and half in the night. They really seemed drowned in Red Bull. They were very, very wild. Then at 3:30 the police came to throw out us of the square and the rain made explosions with the electric instalation, they stopped. But people began to shout asking for more. So Mark Tortorici and The Big Four gitarist began to play without loudspeakers. The Californian draw out his trowsers and went into the fountain in the center of the square. A really blues ecstasy 
We wish a new, intense edition of the American Roots the next year again. We’ll return to have dinner in Kilowatio tavern at the port, drinkbeer at the Plaza Roja square, and, of course, to swing all the night.