‘JAMMING with JOHN ELLISON’ | CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO. Video, photos and text by Douglas John Imbrogno | westvirginiaville.com | oct17.2024. The thing that outsiders steeped in the usual West Virginia stereotypes will never know, unless they come and visit with a well-traveled guide, is just how frequently and repeatedly some kind of wonderful thing happens in the state. I mean this both as a pun — given who is featured in the video above — and an actual truth. The video bears witness to one such wonderful happening. It’s a cellphone showcase of an impromptu harmonic convergence with a soul and blues legend, in a tattoo shop on a back street in one of West Virginia’s bigger cities (although none of them are all that large).