Hill Country Blues Essentials
Jun 15, 2021
2 minutes
Mississippi Fred McDowell
nown as one of the great “lost” bluesmen whose popularity surged in the folk music scene of the 1960s, Fred McDowell influenced some of the biggest stars of the day — including the Rolling Stones, who recorded a faithful cover of— while penning classics “Shake ’Em on Down,” “61 Highway” and “Drop Down Mama.” On his final album, [Capitol], he nonetheless took up an electric guitar, the instrument of choice for young rock ‘n’ rollers. Before his death in 1972, he passed along his slide technique to an up-and-comer he had befriended named Bonnie Raitt.
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