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    Blues Guitarist Top 10 No. 7 Johnny Whitehill Guitar and Bass Magazine March 2007 Reproduced with kind permission Thanks for the PDF Rob & Marcus

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    Blues Guitarists TOP 10

    7... Johnny Whitehill


    FINEST
    MOMENT?
    Paul Lamb and the
    Kingsnakes’ Live At The

    M
    aybe it’s something 100 Club is quite a
    in the water, but blast. The band have
    Newcastle blues is as that same hard-edged
    hard as nails and twice as tough rawness that defined
    – and Johnny Whitehill is a case the early Fabulous
    in point. Although voted Best Thunderbirds, but it’s
    British Blues Guitarist three years tinged with that
    Photo: Geoff Marston/Stanley Blues Festival

    running in the annual British unique British blues


    Blues Connection Awards, it’s a sensibility. Listen to
    mystery why Johnny still remains Johnny’s own album
    one of the great unsung guitar Guitar Slinger, though,
    heroes of British blues scene. to really hear the man
    Whitehill left the Tyne behind in overdrive
    back in the mid ’80s, moving
    south to London to find fame, if
    not fortune, with harmonica
    virtuoso Paul Lamb. With the
    Gear
    formation of the Kingsnakes Johnny’s guitars were
    Johnny quickly became Paul’s stolen so often that
    right-hand man, ripping off he took to playing
    stunning energetic solos that Epiphone Les Pauls
    belied his quiet onstage and assorted Fender
    persona – and invariably stole the into a blistering flurries of notes and touring schedule to head back to copies. However, he
    show. A master of the slow blues, single-string runs up and down the Newcastle. He’s currently forming a now plays a proper
    Johnny’s always had the rare ability to frets; the mark of a true master. new band; one which he says will play US Fender Strat
    take things down to the merest A few years back Johnny left the everything from southern soul to through a Dean
    whisper before cranking things up Kingsnakes and their relentless Texas blues. Watch this space. Markley combo

    6... Davy Graham FINEST


    MOMENT?
    There can of course be
    only one; almost half a

    W
    hen Davy Graham’s century on, Folk, Blues
    acoustic masterpiece Folk, And Beyond has not
    Blues And Beyond was lost its capacity to
    released in 1963, it hit the semi- amaze. It’s a righteous
    comatose English folk scene like a mix of eclectic
    whirlwind. From the raga-like intro of influences that were
    his take on Leadbelly’s Leaving Blues mindboggling at the
    he came on like an acoustic Hendrix, time and still have the
    spitting out new ideas and licks. And capacity to astound
    yet, despite the incredible breadth of the listener
    his influences – everything from
    Appalachian banjo tunes to jazz to
    the sounds of the Tangiers souk – at
    heart Davy Graham was always first Gear
    and foremost a bluesman. A close Back then he mostly
    friend of Alexis Korner, he jammed played a Gibson J-50
    with John Mayall and the with a DeArmond
    Bluesbreakers but never felt happy in pickup, but recent
    a band context. Over the years he’s sightings have seen
    become an icon of the British folk him playing a Fylde
    scene, and there are as many myths and various nylon-
    about the man as there are about strung Spanish guitars
    Robert Johnson. But if Davy Graham
    had done nothing more than invent
    DADGAD tuning, this sonic
    sorcerer’s place in musical history
    would still be assured.

    38 March 07 - Guitar & Bass

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