Guitar-slinging Johnny "Clyde" Copeland found his greatest success as a bluesman in New York City, but he proudly introduced himself all over the world as being from "Third Ward, Texas." That gritty inner-city neighborhood adjacent to downtown Houston is to Texas blues what Venice was to the Renaissance-it was home to the likes of T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Albert Collins among many others. In this love song to his old 'hood, Copeland evokes the Third Ward and its showplace, Shady's Playhouse, where he and his friend and teacher Joe "Guitar" Hughes fronted the house band.  Cayenne-spicy horns and a tongue-in-groove backbeat evoke the glory days of H-Town rhythm and blues. (Lamentably, Copeland died of heart disease in 1997, but his daughter Shemika is still carrying on the family blues tradition).