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Blues Greats: Blind Lemon Jefferson

by TheFlyFifer on May 27, 2010

Many of the blues greats were penniless musicians who were later exploited by record companys and only acheived a degree of fame if they lived into old age. One notable exception is Blind Lemon Jefferson, a self-taught guitarist whose unique voice and guitar technique made him the most popular blues musician ……………………of.the 1920’s.
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McKinley Blues

by TheFlyFifer on April 10, 2010

No, this isn’t the story of Blues music on America’s highest mountain, this is the story of influential blues musician McKinley Morganfield, a virtuoso of slide guitar.

Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar because bottlenecks were the first materials used to produce the effect. Normally a guitar player varies the pitch of notes by [...]

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