I'm from that lost generation: too young to be a beatnik; too old to be a hippie.

Great news. According to todays Ottawa Citizen, bues matriarch Etta James might be playing at this years BluesFest. This is great news to me because I think she does by far the best version of "Hound Dog", even better than Big Mama Thorntons. The song really needs to be sung by a woman, since its really a song about a man not a dog (except in Elvis's version).