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The first white bluesman on tape, Frank Hutchison recorded for a brief three years. But the 32 tunes that he laid down between 1926 and 1929 influenced everyone from <a href="spotify:artist:6cjuHeJM6CHRUhIhApwFwx">Leo Kottke</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7CA7FJBftyM0hSJaF6GWqT">Spider John Koerner</a> to <a href="spotify:artist:74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX">Bob Dylan</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6WjX0aTaDpid6wC4l09oWS">Paul Geremia</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:01N1aZStXA4yGvkz4vRXtJ">Doc Watson</a> covered both sides of Hutchinson's first single, "Worried Blues"/"The Train That Carried the Girl Back Home," recorded in New York in October 1926. <a href="spotify:artist:4szqhE3dT8nzYnlXYGwzmi">Cowboy Copas</a> rewrote Hutchison's tune "Coney Isle," renamed it "Alabam'," and had a country hit in 1960. An ex-miner, Hutchison reportedly learned to play the blues by watching Bill Hurt, a disabled Black man, as a youngster. Best known for his slide guitar playing, Hutchison held his guitar on his lap in a style popularized in Hawaii.
On September 24 and 25, 1929, Hutchison recorded in Atlanta, along with <a href="spotify:artist:1qlsjIYAvADGSfxcrCq6gP">Emmett Miller</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2KalnECy9kMnotdTwS6GLT">Fiddlin' John Carson</a>, Namour & Smith, Moonshine Kate, Bud Blue, Black Brothers, and Martin Molloy, a three-disc album of music and comedy entitled The Medicine Show.
Following his last recording session in September 1929, Hutchison worked as a steamboat entertainer and a store owner. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi
On September 24 and 25, 1929, Hutchison recorded in Atlanta, along with <a href="spotify:artist:1qlsjIYAvADGSfxcrCq6gP">Emmett Miller</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2KalnECy9kMnotdTwS6GLT">Fiddlin' John Carson</a>, Namour & Smith, Moonshine Kate, Bud Blue, Black Brothers, and Martin Molloy, a three-disc album of music and comedy entitled The Medicine Show.
Following his last recording session in September 1929, Hutchison worked as a steamboat entertainer and a store owner. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi
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