Topic: Let's see if you can recognize the man in that photo

[LoneWolf]

Can you recognize this very famous country bluesman?

[Stefan Wirz]

don't know who he is, but just to make it at least a bit easier:

[LoneWolf]

Thank you Stefan. I like your website by the way.


Mike, it's not Big Joe. You're close.

[Prof Scratchy]

I'll take a stab at Willie Dixon posing with a borrowed guitar just to confuse everybody!

[LoneWolf]

No:)

By the way, on Youtube.com you can find a video of Willie Dixon play an acoustic guitar... But he wasn't very good at it:)



Need a clue?

[blueshome]

Booker White?

[LoneWolf]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a winner!!


Have you ever heard Booker with an electric guitar? I didn't... I reckon this photo was taken in the 70's..

[LoneWolf]

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[blueshome]

As a rewardfor the right answer, it would good if someone could do something to prevent Richard appearing at Guersey Campbell withat bl###**** banjolele thing!

[Rivers]

Seems to have more hair than the blues revival era BW. Shot in the late 50s / early '60s perhaps? Looks like he's playing a Teisco Del Rey or similar. I wonder where and when it was shot?

[blueshome]

This is Booker. This photo has been around before, I think it was taken in the late 60's,very early 70's - come on Mr.Bunker!

[LoneWolf]

Maybe it's not his hair? Maybe it's a hat? Something like the hat on Keb' Mo's head in that photo:



(Not EXACTLY that hat, but something similar...)


What I thought was strange in that photo is that he doesn't have a slide on his finger:)

But that's definatley Booker..

[Rivers]

Comparing other shots it looks to me like he might have broken his nose at some point, his schnozz in this photo is a dead ringer. He must be wearing a beret, did he ever tour Francais?! Maybe he borrowed Stefan Grossman's . . .

[Bunker Hill]

This is Booker. This photo has been around before, I think it was taken in the late 60's,very early 70's - come on Mr.Bunker!

Sorry this Xmas Day topic happened whilst I was away.

FWIW Sylvia Pitcher was the photographer and taken backstage at the AFBF, Hammersmith Odeon, London in 1967. As I recall  the guitar was that belonging to one of the other participants but I might be incorrect in that.

 

[mississippijohnhurt1928]

That Doesn't Look Much Like Bukka.