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Blues Vintage:
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When it came time to hire a guitar player, I didn't even have to think about it, Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

- Bob Dylan

Sixstring:
"I was living on, I believe it was 2320 Carr Street during that time and I was playing at Ernest Walker's "House Party" on Jefferson.  Robert Johnson had come over to find me, and he was a stranger in the town so he told me 'Look, I've heard about you.'  He was just traveling through, and he says, 'Where are you working at tonight?' so I told him and he says, 'Can I come over?' and I said, 'Yeah," so he come over to Walker's...

Well, we sat in the back yard, and that fellow, he went over some guitar, and I thought, well, this guy's got it.  I mean, he was amazing.  I was a little bit older than him, but I didn't think anybody had any seniority over me on the guitar, but this guy made me look little."

-Henry Townsend 1962, on meeting Robert Johnson for the first time in 1935.

Blues Vintage:
I begin to Play a guitar when was the age of 14 for Scool Programs and contry Dances and Partyies
I Lerned Songs by Hearing them by ear
My father Played Vionlin
I would Play guitar music Because I Liked it
I Has Played guitar over 59 years
I was Descoverd in 1961
I Has Ben in --- 12 Stetes
I lever lift Navasota until I Was call to the Berkely folk festial in 1961
I was Born on April 1895
I was Raised on a farm
at the age of a 11 I Had to do a mans Work to Support my family
I Had a Hard Life
I Has did all Sort of Hard Work, and musik Has made my Life Better
I Still Love to Play my music
I Hope you Studens Will learn my music


- Letter from Mance Lipscomb intended for guitar students.

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