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Always have the guitar around and first thing in the morning when you wake up play that guitar - Reverend Gary Davis, advice to weenies
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It's been great to see the responses this thread has generated, and I've got a few more to nominate, St. Louis pianists all: Roosevelt Sykes, Lee Green and Walter Davis. I realize not posting photos hardly helps my case, but I can tell you where to find some good ones: The photo of Roosevelt Sykes on his old Yazoo album made him look like a bank president or captain of industry (in a good way). Walter Davis has a couple of good photos on the back of the old Yazoo "Cripple Clarence Lofton and Walter Davis" album, and appears to have been a very spiffy, conservative sort of dresser. Lee Green had an altogether different thing going. In the only photo I've seen of him which comes in the booklet for the still-available Yazoo CD, "The Way I Feel", a review of which can be found at: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?amp;Itemid=60&topic=441.0 , he is wearing a swallowtail coat that looks as though it would have had a hard time negotiating a piano bench. Not a conservative dresser at all, Lee Green. All best, Johnm Memphis Minnie over Tina Turner?@#$%^&*!!?? I'm not thinking of Tina as a blueswoman... Yeah, she's got great legs for an old lady, but ah... I'm a sucker for whiskey-drinkin', guitar-playin' women... even if she could be my grandmother... Memphis Minnie over Tina Turner?@#$%^&*!!?? Yeah...whats not to like.
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