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From Bloom County To Outland to your own starring roll, what a long strange trip its been. Mississippi Fred McDowell was the real deal. He had the rich soil of the delta beneath his fingernails & the haunts of the deep south in his soul. A guitar in his hands became a ghostly haunted banshee,a moaning spirit of defiance. Many a "rock star" would mine old MFD for licks n riffs to wow new generations of blues aficionados. But show & flash were pale imitations comp... MORE
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This got me thinkingCertainly no discussion of the old masters can be had without mentioning "Mississippi" Fed McDowell. His slide playing is awesome. (And I use that absurdly over abused term advisedly). He draws on and enlarges the vocabulary of giants. Willie McTell, Barbeque Bob and others echo in Fred McDowell's sound. The Howling demon at the Crossroads wails in the haunted pleas of Fred McDowell's slide.With Fred, the guitar becomes an equal partner in a performan... MORE
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"I made up a lot of the songs I sing. It's like you hear a record or something or other. Well, you pick out some words out of that record that you like. You sing that and add something else onto it. It's just like if you're going to pray, and mean it, things will be in your mind. As fast as you get one word out, something else will come in there. Songs should tell the truth... When I play-- if you pay attention, what I sing the guitar sings, too. And what the guitar say, I... MORE
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Today's song was going to be something by Agent Orange, like "Everything Turns Grey", but then I logged on to MOG and saw that G. Love was contributing. I went over and watched his tribute to Mississippi Fred McDowell, then left an insulting comment (something about being corny), and came back to my own site and saw my critique of Greg Allman. Oops... I'm a hater.
But it's not true. These guys are my heroes. They make me happy and I have an enormous amount of respect fo... MORE
But it's not true. These guys are my heroes. They make me happy and I have an enormous amount of respect fo... MORE
