Big George Brock...

Blues artist Big George Brock holds his harmonica at his home Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, in St. Louis. At 77, Brock is a natural storyteller and respected musician, who talks easily about growing up in Mississippi, playing music with Muddy Waters in Brock's mother's backyard during fish fries, working as a sharecropper in cotton fields, becoming a boxer and of course, playing the blues

Oct. 19, 2009 file photo shows blues harmonica player Big George Brock speaks about his life at his home in St. Louis. At 77, Brock is a natural storyteller and respected musician, who talks easily about growing up in Mississippi, playing music with Muddy Waters in Brock's mother's backyard during fish fries, working as a sharecropper in cotton fields, becoming a boxer and of course, playing the blues