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Two wonderful artists, the main inspirations for my playing style (such as it is). I doubt that they ever played together, but they must have met at least once during the 60s -- at Newport, maybe? According to George Wein's memoir, during the early years of the Folk Festival, the organizers housed all the blues artists (i.e., southern Blacks) together in a large vacant mansion, the "Blues House."

Check out gwanya's post, three messages above this one, which verifies something of which I was *almost* sure, having seen Libba Cotten more than once employing her upside-down lefthanded technique.

How in God's name did Libba play the thumb part with her finger and the finger part with her thumb AND SOUND EXACTLY AS THOUGH SHE WERE PICKING "NORMALLY"?

Jimi Hendrix played upside-down and backwards, too, but of course he didn't sound like ANYONE else...