[Banjoguy]

I appreciate all the good things being said about BBK...but honestly, I never heard the guy play one blues scale, just the same string bend over and over. (Maybe I wasn't listening?)

Please, don't be too hard on me.

[dmz]

You weren’t listening.

I’d make a banjo joke but since I play one as well, it just would be unseemly.

He’s not playing 8 or 16 notes a measure like a banjo does, so you have to listen longer :-)

[WayneS]

Here are a couple of quotes form the man himself on the subject:

“I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there’s many more! I wouldn’t want to be like them, you understand, but I’d like to be equal, if you will.”

and,

“You’ve heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that’s because there’s been so many can do it better’n I can, play the blues better’n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.”