This is the picture of James Cotton that’s on his Wikipedia page . It’s got to be one of my favorite pictures ever. The ‘I just saw a ghost!’ expression on his face, and the way he’s dressed, it just makes the blues come alive for me.
Cotton himself is quite a remarkable individual as well. Look at this quote from is page on Pandora
At his high-energy 1970s peak as a bandleader, James Cotton was a bouncing, sweaty, whirling dervish of a bluesman, roaring his vocals and all but sucking the reeds right out of his defenseless little harmonicas with his prodigious lung power. Due to throat problems, Cotton’s vocals are no longer what they used to be, but he remains a masterful instrumentalist.
What a guy.