Re: [Harp-L] re: butterfield

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I saw Paul a week before he died. He was playing acoustic. His tone was
> terrific.A few harp players can make your hair stand on end. Paul was one of
> them. I'd put him right up there with Sonny Terry and James Cotton as a player
> with a distinct sound.
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Not to take anything away from Sonny Terry--he was a great player--but 
distinctive sound isn't something I think of when I think of him.  Buddy 
Moss, for one, sounded very similar.  While Moss recorded several years 
earlier than Terry, he may not have come first.  I think it was a 
Southeastern style. 

The odd thing is that Moss also owned the guitar style played by Gary 
Davis and Blind Boy Fuller. Again he recorded first.  A prison term in 
the mid thirties slowed down his musical career.

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