I was totally dismayed to find that absolutely no one has MOG'ged about Josh White. He was a phenomenal blues/folk/gospel/everything musician. He's done everything from political folk to piedmont blues (Bob Dylan was very inspired by him) to pre-WWII gospel blues to country blues to something that is indefinably Josh White. He, to me, is the ultimate definition of "the blues": there's no electric gutiar, no band, no drummer, no back up singers, just him and his guitar singing about the horrors of the Jim Crow South, betraying women, and his broken, hard life.
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