Elmore James was, without question, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period. James was born on January 27, 1918, to Leola Brooks. He was later given the surname of his stepfather, Joe Willie James. He got his start with music learning to play bottleneck on a homemade instrument made out of a broom […]
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