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Offline Gilgamesh

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #90 on: April 08, 2017, 04:44:03 PM »
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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #91 on: April 11, 2017, 04:31:23 PM »
There are so many that I could list here but I'll narrow it down to three...

Charlie Patton
Washington Phillips
Blind Willie Johnson

Perhaps Washington Phillips doesn't count if we are talking strictly "blues" here but I would love to see and hear him play live.
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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #92 on: April 25, 2017, 03:15:11 PM »
Peg Leg Howell and his band
William Harris
King Solomon Hill

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #93 on: April 27, 2017, 11:31:36 AM »
Tarter and Gay. Those two sides seem like a small glimpse of what they were capable of. 

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #94 on: April 27, 2017, 05:47:29 PM »
Cecil Barfield
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Blind Willie McTell playing "Travellin' Blues".

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #96 on: August 07, 2017, 02:44:38 PM »
Patton, for his style and showmanship, love his stuff.
Lemon, because I think he's amazingly great, how did he do it?
Tommy Johnson, because I love his music, also said to be quite a showman.

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #97 on: August 07, 2017, 07:26:56 PM »
William Brown of "Mississippi Blues" fame, recorded by Lomax @ Sadie Beck's in the early forties. That recording is the most perfect "country blues" I know - a tall gent who played left-handed, according to Alan. It don't get much better than that, folks!
After that, McTell - he was something wonderful, from all reports. Could distinguish between light and dark, but still an amazing person... and musician.

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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #98 on: August 08, 2017, 06:42:32 AM »
1) Any configuration of the Patton/House/Brown/whoever "party band" of the 1920s... (Son's first session of LoC recordings with Leroy Williams, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown to me are still some of the best recordings around)
2) An afternoon with Lead Belly (for his sheer power and variety of songs)
3) Robert Johnson (cause... Robert Johnson, man)
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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #99 on: August 15, 2017, 01:29:05 AM »
Washington Phillips as his vocals and zither have haunted me for many years.
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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #100 on: August 15, 2017, 08:58:20 AM »
Tough one! I would probably go for, Charley Patton.
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Re: What Country Blues musicians would you most like to have seen perform?
« Reply #101 on: August 15, 2017, 10:32:58 AM »

Garfield Akers, alone or with Joe Calicott. Either way.
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