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Thread #147342   Message #3415824
Posted By: Bobert
07-Oct-12 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: Lee Atwater: Seasoned Bluesman?
Subject: RE: Lee Atwater: Seasoned Bluesman?
BTW, I never considered Danny Gatton a blues player... More a rocker...

There was a blind albino blues player I heard once when I was in my teens down in DC... I have tried for years to remember his name... He was a black guy... Well, let's say that he was African American 'cause he was real light skinned... Very small... Sat on the speaker of his amp and played electric guitar... One day when I least expect it his name will come back to me and I can Google him up... He played in the 50s and 60s...

Other than those folks the folks I knew were acoustic country blues players like the late John Jackson and the late John Cephas and the guy I used to call "Dad", the late (sniff) N.J. Warren, and the not so late folks like Eleanor Ellis, Phil Wiggins, Clarence "The Bluesman" Turner, Mike Baytop, David Jackson, Miles Spicer, all the ladies in "Sapphire", and folks in various blues bands I met at various festivals where I and my friends at Archie Edwards Blues Foundation would conduct blues workshops...

B~