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Thread #15283 Message #136321
Posted By: Steve Latimer
15-Nov-99 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: real blues
Subject: RE: real blues
Don't know the Jon Spencer band, but I sure have mixed feelings about Clapton. I had given up on Eric years ago, felling that he had become a middle of the road pop star, then he released "From The Cradle", a blues CD which I quite enjoyed. I don't think of Eric as a bluesman though, I see him as a good guitarist who is capable of playing many styles quite well, the blues being one of them. But he just doesn't move me the way Son House, Bukka White, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt and Johnny Winter do.