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Title: Slide Players who Played Only Lap-Style
Post by: Johnm on March 30, 2021, 03:44:31 PM

Hi all,
One or two only per poster, please.
   * Black Ace
   * Oscar Woods (?)
All best,
Johnm

Title: Re: Slide Players who Played Only Lap-Style
Post by: Parlor Picker on March 31, 2021, 02:00:46 AM

Casey Bill Weldon (??)

Title: Re: Slide Players who Played Only Lap-Style
Post by: banjochris on March 31, 2021, 11:51:33 AM

Rev. Edward W. Clayborn

also I don't think there's anything in Charlie Patton's slide playing that would preclude it all being played lap-style. I know Son House said he played regular bottleneck style as well, but Son said a lot of things. At the very least, I don't think that there's a single slide tune Patton played with a note that could be said 100% to be conventionally fretted. The closest I think would be the bass notes in Magnolia Blues/When Your Way Gets Dark but I think those could be played with a bar and there's one point in one of the tunes where one of them sounds like it is.

Title: Re: Slide Players who Played Only Lap-Style
Post by: zoner on April 07, 2021, 07:46:30 AM

John Fahey told me that he thought Patton played all his slide pieces lap style.