Got those mystifying chair placement blues...

Another example of my high school orchestra director's quirky personality:  There was only one time I received a much lower chair placement at a state music competition than I thought I deserved. As I checked the seating list, my high school orchestra conductor walked by and asked, "How are you holding up?"  "Not so well," I replied.  "I'm thinking about getting out of this bass playing racket and becoming a blues harmonica player instead."  Without missing a beat, he said, "You should go to Mississippi.  That's how you break into the blues scene."  As I asked in a previous post, who else would respond that way?