Joseph Spence enjoyed himself immensely. His own improvising cracked him up, and his lyrical forgetfulness was also a source of amusement to him as well as to his listeners. Lines and often whole paragraphs would drop out of Spence’s renditions […]
Joseph Spence enjoyed himself immensely. His own improvising cracked him up, and his lyrical forgetfulness was also a source of amusement to him as well as to his listeners. Lines and often whole paragraphs would drop out of Spence’s renditions […]
This is the stuff that makes Ry Cooder do backflips. In 1958, folklorist Sam Charters came upon stonemason Joseph Spence playing guitar for some friends who were building a house in his hometown of Small Hope, on Andros Island in […]
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