Meeting Bukka White

Meeting Bukka White 

I met Bukka White when I was a very young guitarist, he was doing a tour with several other great jazz/blues players - I am pretty sure it was in Leek, Staffordshire in the UK - I wish I'd chronicled all the people I played with during that period of my life! 

As a musician it was the really important things that stuck in my mind, for instance, who he was, what he was playing. Bukka White played with incredible technique on his right hand - kind of playing a double rhythm (slide with left), he was playing a Dobro, I don't remember the song. Afterwards he was a true gent as always and said to me "That's some fine guitar!". Needless to say I never forgot that!

Chris Dair

 

 

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