Magic Sam, Where Have You Been All My Life?
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1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
3/25/2008 6:22:19 PM
I discovered blues music as a teenager in the same way that most do - I worked my way backward from rock music. It's only now, as an adult, that I really understand the debt owed to the blues musicians who white British and American guitar players so unapologetically plagiarized. And despite having cycled through thousands of records and CDs in my lifetime, combing liner notes and magazine interviews for attributions and inspiration, I seem to have totally missed this guy:
Tags: magic sam, peter green and eric clapton have some splainin' to do
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