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Ex-boxer Byther Smith says, 'The blues is just like fighting. ì You gots to have that killin' instinct.' Which he does. He's ì J.B. Lenoir's first cousin, he's been in Chicago for years, and ì there aren't too many contemporary bluesmen who would want to get ì in the ring with Byther. He's got a lot of shifty moves--who ì else have you heard that can imitate Elmore James's sound, but ì without using a slide, the way Byther does … MORE