![]() Both Booker White and Son House (with his National Style 0) are both considered pioneers of Delta Blues slide guitar and a main inspiration for the fascination with National resonator guitars as we know it today. Booker honed his craft in the following years and cites Charlie Patten as a big influence, who he also claimed to have met. His musical career started by playing the fiddle at square dances with a change of instrument after his father gifted him a guitar on his ninth birthday. ![]() He was best known for his slide work on National Resonator guitars and recordings put out by early labels including Victor, Vocalion and Okeh. ![]() ![]() C7094, gifted to his transatlantic friend, Keith Perry, a Newcastle, UK based photographer in May 1976 and played by Dave Stewart has sold at auction for over £90,000.īooker “Bukka” White (12 th November 1906 or 1909 – 26 th February 1977) was an influential African-American Delta Blues guitarist from Mississippi, USA, active from the late 1920s until his passing in 1977. Washington White’s 1933 National Duolian “Hard Rock” Resonator guitar, made in USA, serial no.
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