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Josh White
The son of a preacher, Josh White, as a child, follows in the footsteps of blind
guitarist-evangelist Blind Joe Taggart in the Carolinas. He discovered the
humiliation and violence suffered by blacks there. Josh decided to leave the
South for New York, where he embarked on a career as a musician and led a
radical political struggle that got him into trouble during the McCarthy era.
From 1930 onwards, he recorded religious pieces, ballads and blues.
His guitar playing, which happily blended that of Lonnie Johnson and Carolinian
fingerpicking (strings touched with five fingers), wa...
TroubleJosh White
Chain Gang Songs
His Eye Is on the SparrowJosh White
Empty Bed Blues
5:25
Baby Please Don't GoJosh White and Big Bill Broonzy
1951-1952
2:28
Careless LoveJosh White, Sidney Bechet and Wilson Meyers
Josh At Midnight
3:41
House of the Rising SunJosh White
Josh White Vol. 6 (1944-1945)
3:19
St. James InfirmaryJosh White
Josh At Midnight
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