RE: [Harp-L] Butterfield and Race

["Eric Neumann" <eneumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought Gwen Foster did that in the 1920's.

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"Butterfield was a cultural pioneer, an racial crossover astronaut. He
made 
the blues accessible to a generation of whites who weren't ready  to
listen to 
roots blues sounds, black folks music."

I would limit that to the United States though - the white Europeans
were quite receptive to the Walters, Sonnys, and black roots blues
musicians et al...

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

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