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First slide guitar blues. Who, when & where?

First slide guitar blues. Who, when & where?

ByPaul Merry June 30, 2017

Nobody knows for sure when slide-guitar playing first slid silkily onto the world’s music scene. The 26-year-old Kentucky blues guitarist, Sylvester Weaver, was first to record slide-guitar blues, as we know it today, using a knife, in New York City, in November 1923. Louisville blues diva Sarah Martin, 38, had chosen her Louisville compatriot to…

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Iconic rock book, but no rock prophesy.

Iconic rock book, but no rock prophesy.

ByPaul Merry June 21, 2017

I’ve just re-read one of the seminal books on the evolution of rock & roll, 47 years after I first obtained it, so if that doesn’t date me, nothing will. Perhaps I was given it by the author. I simply can’t remember. When I say ‘evolution’, I mean the history of rock music from the…

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