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more suggestions:
electric:
albert collins
elmore james
t-bone walker
howling wolf (of course--anything)
muddy waters--there is a great chess comp of stuff from the 1950s--particularly good with little walter on harmonica
john lee hooker: endless boogie, urban blues
mississippi fred macdowell: i do not play no rock and roll.
acoustic:
endorse the robert johnson suggestion. yes yes.
charely patton
skip james
blind lemon jefferson
bessie smith
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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