(Phoenix, Arizona) Hans Olson interview with Drew Verbis:
March, 2006: Listen to Interview
Every big city has one: a venerable Bluesman who’s been around forever and is invariably taken for granted on his home turf. Anyone who’s spent a monsoon season or two in the desert can tell you the old man of the mountain in these parts is Hans Olson. It’s not that Hans Olson is a Bluesman–even though he is. It’s not that he’s more or less “authentic” than somebody else–even though he is. It’s not even that he’s an Arizonan, where you get to invent your own Blues against a wide blue sky, in the dry desert air. It’s the authority that he owns, that he’s given himself, that was given to him. The desert has that kind of authority but it’s boring to listen to…Hans isn’t.
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