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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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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.
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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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According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was ‘the most important blues singer who ever lived’. He is number five in Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery.
Almost the only concrete things we have of Robert Johnson are his recordings, made in 1936 [...]
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