Here's the legendary British country blues man Bottleneck Bill performing the two Harmonica blues "Don't let your right hand know, what your left hand is doing" Bill saw Sonny Terry perform this on a tv show in which the legendary jazz journalist Studs Terkel talked blues with Harmonica Ace the late great Sonny Terry. The origin of the title comes as so many blues phraseology from the bible Matthew 6:3 a modern version of the bible quotes "
But when you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing"
Bottleneck Bill from from the deepest south of Eastbourne Sussex Southeast England UK "The Most Downhome Sound Around" as he Bills himself.
Bill has been playing Delta blues since the early 1960's inspired as he was by the great Delta bluesmen who were being rediscovered by a new young white audience during this period.Blues was originaly the popular music of the Afro-Americans living in the rural southern states of America.By the 1960's the music had become an anachronism
among this original audience who were by then listening to rock and roll and early soul then through the activities of folk music collectors the surviving original country bluesmen were being brought out of obscurity and dormancy as new recordings of them were being made and released on LP record for a new white audience who found inspiration in this raw powerful emotion charged Idiom.
Like many Bottleneck Bill the son of a straight laced shopkeeper from genteel olde worlde Sussex was enchanted by this entrancing genre of music so much so that he has continued playing nothing else but Delta blues for the last 50 odd years and has developed one of the most authentic representations of Mississippi Delta Blues in existence today.Bill doesn't use lots of fancy tunings or posess a collection of expensive vintage guitars,he still plays the modified Hofner guitar that constructed over 40 years ago using marine fiberglass and his own amplifier set up,which he based upon his conception of that used by Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller. Bill will tell you that the way he plays is so wrong it comes out sounding right that a student of blues would find his method impossible to mimic,but when you hear him playing and singing you will know you have heard the real thing.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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16 сен 2024
