Artist Lounge: Josh White
Moggers' favorites by Josh White
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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 ... MORE
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Just wanted to add this. It's my fave version of this horrifically painful song. I'm black, white, and Cherokee, and my mom's (who's black and Cherokee) family is from the South (the Florida Panhandle and somewhere else in the Deep South). My mom used to tell me stories about when they drove from Connecticut to Florida when she was a girl in the 1940s and 1950s. The cops would pull them over and my grandmother would make my mom and her sisters and brother pretend to b... MORE
