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Mr. Johnny Billington, "Down Home Blues"

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Uploaded by on Apr 30, 2009

Here's more footage from the 2009 Double Decker street festival in Oxford, Mississippi. Johnny Billington, a contemporary Delta bluesman, does Z. Z. Hill's "Down Home Blues" (1982), with Adam Gussow on harp and thump-pedal and George Worthmore on rhythm guitar.

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  • Nice very nice. He has the feel of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. Is he from the hill country?

  • No, he's from Lambert, in the Delta.

  • Fing awesome! Wish you coulda miked your harp into a pignose or something. Was a little drowned out by Mr. Billington's Guitar

  • See my note above. I'd been playing through an amp; he insisted that I play the "thump" pedal (he loved the sound) to keep time. I obeyed the master--and posted the video, even though I knew some people would focus on the low harp volume.

  • he plays with his thumb just like wes montgomery!

  • Yes. And he uses his index finger to get the syncopated "snap." If I were a guitar player looking for some insight into how Mississippi blues is actually played, I would park myself in front of this video and the previous one I put up and spend some serious woodshed time.

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  • Gave me a chill, great blues

  • Sorry m8 my dad plays in a band and is always b*tching about the sound guy....levels are something I always pay attention to. Dont get me wrong...I certainly appreciate your posting the video and I enjoied it.

  • Thank you Adam, see you in June at the Turning Point

  • Wow, loved every second of a minute of this song

  • Man that was fantastic ! What a sound ! Thankyou very much Adam

  • BY the way. Mr Johnny has a singer register quite similar to Mister Satan´s

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