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Thread #98639 Message #2499676
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
21-Nov-08 - 07:26 PM
Thread Name: Who is your favorite blues artist?
Subject: RE: Who is your favorite blues artist?
Nobody has mentioned this great performer so far.
A fine piece of blues playing, innit ?
I see no reason to alter my post on the thread a year and a half ago
Subject: RE: Who is your favorite blues artist?
From: Murray MacLeod - PM
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 12:53 PM
Blind Blake -dead acoustic players.
Paul Geremiah - live acoustic players
Roy Buchanan - best electric blues player, dead or alive.
We could go on and on discussing acoustic blues players, with justifiable arguments from all sides, but there is no disputing that Roy Buchanan stood alone as the supreme exponent of electric blues playing.
I mean, nobody, not Hendrix, not BB King, not Buddy Guy, not anybody ever came within hailing distance of Buchanan.
And nobody ever will.
His death was the greatest musical loss ever ...