“Rock this bitch!” someone shouted from the front of the audience as we were recording at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. I told this young man that I didn’t know the song “Rock This Bitch,” and I proceeded to make one up on the spot. The song was good enough to make it onto the album. This excited heckler had unwittingly launched a new tradition, because from that night on, someone always shouted, “Rock this bitch!” at my concerts, a cue for me to improvise a song. The rules developed spontaneously. Each “Rock This Bitch” (RTB) would be completely new, musically and lyrically, as long as
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