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Booker White "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues"

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:26 pm Tue, Oct 6, 2009

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I sure like Booker White's slapping technique!

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • Bouncy Bouncy

    The new look is quite awful, but reducing the saturation of the sidebar and topbar would go a long way toward improving it. In other words: not so black, not so red!

  • Sean Blueart

    HELP! New interface ugly as hell, who do I chew out for using blinding contrast and silly balloon font??!!

  • Anonymous

    The slapping technique flamenco style guitar playing.

  • stevew

    Wow! Thanks for this bit of history. He is reported to have given his cousin, B.B. King, his 1st guitar (Wiki lookup). I love National Steel guitars old or new.

  • pato pal ur

    What a badass. I never knew that his real name was actually “Booker” (thanks wiki).

  • http://eliashiebert.tumblr.com Elias Hiebert

    Thank you for calling him by his real name Booker instead of the rather insulting “Bukka”.

  • WaylonWillie

    wow, i don’t know where to place this comment, so i’ll just put it on the first page i read. i echo sean above, the redesign is unsightly, and also a pain. it looks like an old version of the instructables site or something.

  • DWittSF

    Awww yeah, Bukka! Looks weird to me to see it sanitized to Booker–doubly weird in Comic Sans Bold, or whatever this new font is.

  • idontwant2liveinoprahsworld

    Nice clip…

    This song has the same music as his most well known song: Parchman Farm Blues
    Blues music is like that sometimes.

    The European tours of the 1960′s by Booker and others are available on DVD.

  • symmetry

    I love the music. But I’m with the others on the redesign. It hurts…