Remembering the influential, ebullient Chicago blues drummer Sam Lay, dead at 86
CHICAGO — The last time I talked to Sam Lay it was late at night and he was on the road and on the telephone, driving back home to Chicago from Cleveland where he has just been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
He said that night in 2015, “I hope you can hear me,” and I could then and realized how many times I had heard him in person, on recordings and in films. And seen him on stages, where he delighted with his drumming and singing, with his buoyant personality
