Improv. on Tommy Johnson's Canned Heat Blues' licks with the nylon strings.
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Well I had started that about the age of twelve... see my mother had a guitar, my father made her a present of a guitar, and he taught her a few chords, but I first started on a little outfit I made with a cigar box... I made a guitar with a cigar box, had peg keys, bored holes in the head, and I had uh... the strings graduated from fishing twine down on to thread - Johnny St. Cyr, guitarist for the Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers in an interview with Alan Lomax on how he learned to play guitar
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Nice job, JayBee, you packed a lot of stuff into that rendition. Tommy would've toasted you with a glass of orange Nehi and sterno. Further proof that nylon strings shouldn't stop anyone from playing country blues. Lindy Nice job indeed, You should post a version with vocals and go for that lonesome falsetto.
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