Re: [Harp-L] I agree with Winslow



   Dude, Butterfield wasn't close to rich. Butterfield was one of the
greatest. Why must the blues be so racist?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Nicholas Lovett wrote:
> <None of that white boy crap for me, no thank you.  Kind of makes me sick
> considering that Butterfield probably made 100 times more money than <Robert
> Lockwood, Willie Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Luther Tucker and Jody Williams
> combined.
>
> If you think Butterfield's life and work were about money, you are sadly
> mistaken.  Butterfield had a lot of problems, but playing crap to get rich
> wasn't one of them.
>
> I don't think anybody, anywhere, anytime has to apologize for playing the
> music they love, or loving the music they love, wherever it comes from or
> wherever they come from.  As far as I'm concerned, the more love there is
> out there, the better.
>
> Regards, Richard Hunter
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>
>
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