j. l. lewis. >> related to tom barrow, a couple times. >> of course, yes. everybody -- he started having these -- block fields that had once been densely populated with residential houses and he had these blues concerts' every sunday during the summer and is a really great seemed to come house and that is another thing in detroit, you feel like you're in clarksdale, mississippi, minutes away. >> you are from this area. after an arbor, mostly lived other places and then you come back to detroit to try to tell the story. tell me about the things that surprise you about the city, things you found that were different that you didn't expect or things you found that were the same. >> the first thing that surprised me was how much i liked living here. full disclosure, when i decided to do the piece i moved away in 93 and my family still lives here so i never really -- a year never went by that come back a couple times. if you have a real extended stay, like planting myself here i wasn't sure how that would go because i have a life in new york i liked and i kind of