My third album, after Elvis's Golden Records and The Kingston Trio's Close Up, bought circa 1960, was "The Josh White Stories - Volume 1". My brother and I learned many of the songs from that album: House Of The Rising Sun, Nobody Knows You..., What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Runs Out, Boll Weevel, Frankie & Johnny... We first learned to bend strings from listening to that album. I'm not sure how close we came to Josh's style, but it seems that he did a bunch of palm muting.
Josh White Jr. used to play in Hamilton folk clubs in the sixties and we never missed one of his shows. He also played with no strap and one foot up on a chair, like his dad. I don't think he ever got the hang of playing with a lit cigarette stuck behind his ear though. I gave up on that after the first couple of tries.