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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2014, 12:53:11 AM »
blind willie mctell?s sacred material. muddy waters even did a couple for alan lomax and john work. skip james did not use slide on his sacred songs,
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2014, 09:37:47 AM »
Hi all,
Lil McClintock used a slide for "Sow Good Seeds".
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2014, 10:06:51 AM »
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2014, 10:08:42 AM »
James "Guitar Slim" Stephens played His Blood Can Make Me Whole, and a couple of others, using a pocket knife, and Mance Lipscomb played a few songs the same way.

Son House played a GREAT "I Shall Not Be Moved" on his earliest post-rediscovery session.

Arvella Gray also did a few.

That's all for now :)
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2014, 10:10:29 PM »
Of those I recorded and issued: Frank Edwards
                                               Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue)
                                               Henry Johnson [sometimes]
Of those I recorded and unissued: Baby Tate
                                                  Dink Roberts (on gtr)

Others did sacred material, but not with a slide. Possibly because I was interested in blues, some folks didn't do sacred stuff, but others did as part of their active repertoire. 20:20 hindsight.

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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2018, 09:36:17 PM »
Hi all,
Bishop Perry Tillis fit this category.
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2018, 12:51:31 AM »
Rev. Utah Smith and Rev. Lonnie Farris were also great slide gospel players.

Some more artists who recorded religious pieces with slide guitar: Willie Mae Williams, Brother Blind Willie Easton, Rev. I.B.Ware, Julius Daniels.
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2018, 05:33:27 AM »
Lonnie Farris played a lap steel, but I don't recall hearing Utah Smith playing slide. Lots of fast fingering up and down the neck in vastapol, but no slide.
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2018, 09:24:41 AM »
That's right, thanks. A mix-up from my side, Utah Smith played only wild gospel guitar without the slide.
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #24 on: December 05, 2018, 04:23:29 AM »
You're not the only one to make the slip -- see Document DOCD-5222, which is recordings by Utah Smith and Lonnie Farris, and is titled Slide Guitar Gospel 1944-1964.
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Re: Religious Singers Who Accompanied Themselves With Slide Guitar
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2018, 08:38:27 AM »
Someone must have pointed it out to the Document people because they re-titled it "Electric / Slide Guitar Gospel 1944-1964" at some point.
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