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I knowed you wuz a picker.

I played piano badly more than 50 years. Last year I bought a Seagull S6 to try my luck with guitar. Gonna start learning to play it one of these days.
 
Origins: No, This Time I Really Mean It

Sorry, Caslon. That last one was mostly intended to be funny.
But these two really do show the link betwixt very early blues and rock and roll. And by that, of course, I mean real Delta Blues before Muddy Waters and that gang took it to Chicago and electrocuted it.

First Reverand Robert Wilkins at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival performing "Prodigal Son" his song from the '20s and '30s performed all around Memphis and North Mississippi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUjN6ZN00MI
The Rolling Stones covered it on their 1968 Beggars Banquet album. In 1969, during a live concert in Oakland, because of a power failure, Mick Jagger sings it accompanied only by Keith Richards on dobro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VSIfAaFBow
I think the Reverand would be proud.
 
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Origins: Speaking of Piedmont Blues

I love the fingerpicking guitar style of Piedmont Country Blues:
Blind Boy Fuller was as good as they got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCCnbzCN4w
And Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane fame covered it with Hot Tuna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxJOht2yRE
Wouldn't call it a cover exactly but you gotta know Jerry Garcia was heavily influenced by him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
Which influenced a generation and, to bring us full circle, spawned the move, Do-Dah Man.
 
Papa Charlie Jackson & Carolina Chocolate Drops - "Your Mama Ain't Sweet Like Mine"

No offense intended toward LT or Mr. Hendrix but I reckon he's just another musician I'm not smart enough to listen to. Sometimes I think I'd appreciate him better stoned. But as I recall 30-40 years ago, I thought I might not lose the melody so often if I was straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63wAneAqYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjyw-nW0D90
Music is more fun with jugs.
Did you know CCD's Rhiannon Giddens is a trained sopranic opera singer?
Edited to add: Please excuse the oedipal error in the post title.
 
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