Re: Mandolin Face
You might be onto something there, Mandokismet. I was listening to a younger Chicago bluesman on the radio, telling that B.B. King advised him that he was getting pretty good on the guitar, but he should make it look as though he was really in pain when he played. Watch a B.B. King video. Does it really hurt that much to play the blues?
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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