“The blues are the roots, everything else is the fruits” -- Willie Dixon

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Almost all of the early Country pioneers (Carter Family, Jimmie Rogers, Hank Williams to name a few) claimed to have learned the guitar/blues music directly or indirectly from black musicians. Roscoe Holcomb, claimed he was taught the guitar by a black man and you can hear the blues in his guitar playing but his vocals are pure nasal, country twang.

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