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title: "Gold Star Sessions 1"
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# Gold Star Sessions 1

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Gold Star Sessions 1

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## Customer Reviews

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    Who Taught Lightning To Play Blues Guitar?
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015*

First, this CD some of Lightning earliest recordings made for Gold Star records in Houston.  The music is superb and the sound is very good given it was taken entirely from either vinyl 78s or acetates.I, however, want to ask a question about Lightning's guitar style, which I hope someone can answer for me.I'm sure some of Lightning's biggest fans also play guitar.  I do and I've been learning Lightning's style for over 40 years.  I think I can fairly say that I can play all of his licks, though I'd rather say I can play in his style.Here's what intrigues me.Lightning supposedly plays "Texas style", i.e., he thumps the appropriate bass string and picks out the melody line primarily on the treble strings with his index finger.  Ernie Hawkins has two instructional DVDs in which he emphasizes this aspect of Lightning's playing as well as demonstrates how to play several of his blues, though I don't think that if you want to learn Lightning's style you need these videos: you just need to listen to his recordings, especially the early ones which feature only his singing and his guitar.Here's my question and I'd really appreciate any responses, even educated guesses:There are numerous blues singers and guitarists who recorded after Lightning who play the way he does, though I've never really heard one who plays as well as Lightning does.When you hear a blues guitarist, you can usually find players who recorded before him from whom he derived his style.  For example, B.B. King created the essential modern blues single-string solo style, but he was preceded by Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker.  Elmore James, who influenced slide guitarists galore, was preceded by Robert Johnson and other Delta players.But who preceded Lightning?  I've been listening to blues recordings from the 1920s on down and I have yet to hear anybody before Lightning who played the way he did, not among Texas players or players from other areas.  So far in my listening history, Lightning has the most unique blues guitar style I've ever heard.  (Running a close second is, of course, John Lee Hooker, who used open G tuning without a slide, a style he said he'd learned from his step-father.)I realize Lightning's style is not terrifically complicated.  It's been called "skeletal" by at least one critic, but it's tremendously evocative.  But where did he learn to play as he did?  Some say he gained a lot from Blind Lemon Jefferson, but except for ending every song with the four notes that make up "good evening, friends", there's no similarity between Lemon and Lightning.  Lemon plays doesn't thump the bass, he plays runs all over the neck, bass and treble.  He also finger-picks, which Lightning doesn't, and he's technically more skilled than Lightning/So this is my question: who before Lightning played in a style like his?  I'd be very appreciative if anybody could answer this.

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    The Gold Star Sessions, Vol. 1
  

*by D***J on Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2016*

This and these: 

  
Gold Star Sessions 2









  
  
    
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The Complete Aladdin Recordings









  
  
    
   are the real thing.  We LOVE them.  You might too.

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    Five Stars
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014*

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