In this scene, Miss Ida Mae trembled to the sound of down-home blues as she pondered Lester’s predicament. She felt the honky-tonk rhythm of Earl Hooker pulsing against the steady beat of her broken but tempered heart, guiding her down the road toward Lester and what she thought she’d find. Before she knew it, her words splashed against Hooker’s spinning, rumbling honky-tonk drivin’ blues, and his guitar picked every word of Miss Ida Mae’s blues.

She saw Lester clearly, so she talked about what she knew.