In this column: nicknames, stage names, Hip Linkchain, Hound Dog taylor, Keb' Mo', Ronnie Earl, Earl Hooker, Tail Dragger Jones, Dr. Ross, Burn Down Garnett, pianists: professors and barrelhouse, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Champion Jack Dupree, King Curtis, Fats Domino, Henry Gray, personal note, John Avery Lomax and Ruby Lomax, Parchman Farm Some more stories …
In this column: Mary had a little lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, Tisket-tasket, nursery rhymes, Ella Fitzgerald, Freddie Spruell, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Earl Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Thomas Edison On the Kokomo Blues pages one of the verses reads: ... Listen now, Mary had a little lamb, I mean, its fleece was white as snow …
In this column: slides, all kinds of Dunlop slides, bottleneck, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, W.C.Handy, CeDell Davis, Vox Wah, my own experience Slides are objects that allow the guitarist to create a violin-like tone. He/she slides the object over the snare and makes a note just above the fret. Different objects are used …
