"Back in the earlier days, the blues musicians helped each other more because we were on a mission to turn everyone on to the blues." Pat "Lamont" Hayes: Mission Save the Blues From the rural hometown settings of Hamel, Minnesota and the river banks of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the blues influence surfaced as early as the mid 1960's for what was to become "The Lamont Cranston Blues Band". By 1969, Th…