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To: lbtbell

One of the very greatest R&Rers of all time. Megahit-maker, and notice, one if the FEW black guitarists ever in serious stardom.

Underrated as perhaps the best guitarist ever.

Never mind his sordid personal life!


62 posted on 03/18/2017 8:00:34 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They all had wild personal lives

Berry liked young white tail

Elvis ditto and the freak was strong in him

Killer liked em young too and may very well have killed wives

Little Richard an early queen

Ike Turner fistfights and drunkenness with Tina

And so forth


75 posted on 03/18/2017 9:08:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (this is war....)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
FEW black guitarists ever in serious stardom

OK, from memory a quick list of the others:

Jimi Hendrix
Prince
B.B. King
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
Buddy Guy
Freddie King
Albert King
Robert Cray
Lenny Kravitz

A bunch of these are the most famous players of the Blues, which, had dozens of other famous black guitaristrs, but they were not world-famous on the order of Hendrix or Chuck Berry who were real super-stars. Someone like John Lee Hooker, famous to some, but probably unknown to most. Might cover some of those on my list above too.

86 posted on 03/20/2017 10:19:06 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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