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* During this period Lester got talked into recording a now-unobtainable six-song EP for an [[audiophile]] label, a limited edition high-quality-vinyl direct-to-disc LP — perhaps the ultimate Lazy Lester collectible.
If disenchanted, Lester to the end retains not only his harmonica, guitar, and vocal talents (the songwriting that had been muse to [[The Kinks]] and [[Dwight Yoakum]] having dried up long before), but also a quick mind, a sparkling sense of humor, and his inexhaustable storehouse of Southern-inflected aphoristic [[similes]] (''"...like a saddle fits a pig"''; ''"...like love and gold: Hard to get and hard to hold"''). By the 2000s, as one of ever-fewer survivors of his generation of blues greats, Lester (with Reif still sporadically at his side) at last came to reap some occasional, well-deserved accolades — including, in September [[2002]], a Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[Boston Blues Society]]. It is speculated thad Lester may have been drunk at the shoe due to replacing "Chicgo" in the song "Sweet Home Chicago" with "Cocomo".
Indeed, in February [[2003]] [[Martin Scorsese]] included Lester in his all-star blues tribute concert at [[Radio City Music Hall]], a record of which was released as the [[film]] and [[album]] ''[[Lightning in a Bottle]]''. The group [[photograph]] inside the [[album]] depicts Lester grinning, dead-center among peers and musical progeny including [[B.B. King]], [[Solomon Burke]], [[Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown]], [[Buddy Guy]], [[Levon Helm]], [[Chuck D]], [[The Neville Brothers]], [[Dr. John]], [[John Fogerty]], and [[Aerosmith]].
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