Talking Blues – Chris Bouchillon
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To play a record, you wound the crank on the side of the cabinet, then manually set the needle onto the already spinning disc. There were around a dozen shellac records in the cabinet, some so old they were printed on just one side. I remember only one disc out of the collection, because after I’d sampled what was there, that was the only one I played. On one side was a song called “Talking Blues.” The flip side held a song called “Hannah.” The artist was Chris Bouchillon. I was crazy about both songs, but I was craziest about “Talking Blues.” It began with a nimbly fingerpicked guitar into, and then a man began talking, not singing, in a pleasant tenor voice over the music…
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