Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Eddie "One String" Jones/Eddie Hazelton
One String Blues
(Takoma, 1964)
Outer space blues broadcasts from LA’s Skid Row.
Given his recent high profile and appearance on Folk America, there has been much chattering on the blogosphere of late as to whether Mr. Seasick Steve is, you know, a genuine hobo or no different from say, this guy who once sat by a railroad and saw a train going by and thought he’d write a song about it, or this guy, working that tramp angle for all it’s got. Those who feel somewhat soiled by the accusations levelled at Mr Steve and feel the need to drink deep of the rusty soup-tin of gas town authenticity should check out the abstract raga pluckings of Eddie "One String" Jones. Jones was discovered on LA's Skid Row in 1960, carrying a 2x4 plank, with a single broom wire stretched along it, and a tin can mounted over one end. Although discovered isn’t strictly true. He had, in fact, approached folklorist Frederick Usher himself, and spanked his 'diddley bow' (or three-quarter banjo) by sliding a half-pint bottle along the wire with his left hand, striking the wire near the tin can with a whittled stick in his right, demonstrating “the onliest music that can't be captured by six strings”. Released at a time when musicologists were desperate to order and classify the sub-genres of African-American music, One String Blues ending up in the ‘ethnic musics’ section of public libraries, and its potential audience of stoners, goof-offs and garage freaks really missed out, because “One String”’s sound is WEIRD: droney grooves and minimalist beauty accompanied by Jones’s gabber-patter which sounds literally out-of-this-world. Accompanied by the more straightforward melancholy blues of South Carolina harmonica man, Edward Hazelton, One String Blues is a masterclass in moon-touched authentic madness for anyone still troubled by the memory of this.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 05/02/2009
Further Listening
JB Smith – Ever Since I Been A Man Full Grown (Takoma, 1967)
Junior Kimbrough – Meet Me In The City (Fat Possum, 1999)
Henry Flynt – Back Porch Hillbilly Blues 1 (Locust, 2002)
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