Bukka White - Mama Don't Allow

hypnotizing

What kind of guitar is that? I noticed Son House plays the same kind in Death Letter Blues.

I think it's called a National Steel Guitar.

It's a National Duolian guitar from 1934-1935, I believe

The first time I heard Bukka White was on a Detroit NPR radio station/or WABX and what impressed me was how clean his slide playing was. Ever since then I've been lookin' for that recording. That first time I heard him would've been 1971. That's a long time to be lookin' but I'm lookin' still. I used to play a 1928 National Steel and I feel a kinship with any person who ever played one.

from when is this record?

@hurius: i'm not sure but i guess somewhere in the '20s maybe early '30s

they have might as well made money off of it nobody else was going to except maybe the labels besides the same can be said for any artist they borrow from where they can these guys stole from each other too

No Led Zep stole those songs by covering some of these blues songs and not giving them credit or royalties which is dishonest, disrespectful and illegal. Its just another chapter in the cultural appropriation of black music.

I'm don't disagree with you on your point, but as a side note, without the cultural appropriation of black music (blues, anyhow), it would surely be a dead art form. Modern black culture has all but abandoned the blues, with the few remaining black artists drawing mainly white males to listen/learn their craft. It's a shame really, it's really one of the greatest forms of music IMHO.