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Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues (vintage picking)

submitted by swampgirl

1 decade 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago

12 Comments

"Piedmont Blues" is old style or "fingerstyle" guitar picking associated with the (U.S) southern East Coast.

mlx

Very nice, SG. Hope it makes it.

Me too mlx, thanks. I could listen to this all day. My dad used to play with this style with a more of a country spin on it.

You know even though it says "Spike Driver Blues", he's singing about John Henry. They ALL sing about John Henry don't they?

The other sift I posted at the same time as this one was about John Henry.

John Henry was a spike driver.

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

damn, I can't find a replacement for this one. I just posted another of his from the same show.

fixed...again

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Invocations (promote) cannot be called by dbot2006 because dbot2006 is not privileged - sorry.

*blues

Adding video to channels (Blues) - requested by EndAll.

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