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Thread #103347   Message #2105719
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
18-Jul-07 - 04:02 AM
Thread Name: How did Henry Thomas play guitar?
Subject: RE: How did Henry Thomas play guitar?
Judged from the clip - he had a nice voice pitched quite high and clear. the guitar style reminded me a little of dave Van Ronk in his more rumbustious moods - Don't you leave me here - maybe.

I'd learned make me a pallet from Derek Brimstone - so the line make a palet on the flo', so your man won't know - was a new one - or perhaps I'd just forgotten it.

I wouldn't make that guitar style a big thing in life - there doesn't sound too much there to me.

I'd love to know where these brigades of Robert Johnson soundalikes come from and where they go. I never hear anyone like him. In fact I'm beating myself up because I can't afford the six hundred quid to go on a course in Northampton next month where Scott Ainslie is tutoring - surely the only man who comes within a mile of the authentic RJ style.

In this country we've got Kevin Brown, who is very good, but he hardly constitutes a brigade - worse luck.