Ry Cooder influence Joseph Spence new album . . . .

 

from the brilliant 'No Depression' magazine/ezine comes this about one of Ry Cooder's main inspirers for 'Jazz' album

‘Encore’ Captures Bahamian Guitarist Joseph Spence Enjoying His Music and Himself Joseph Spence – Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing

By Grant Britt The tunes presented on Encore are from a 1965 concert in New York City organized by the Newport Folk Foundation. A couple have been released previously, but any Spence output is worth multiple outings — there’s so much going on that something previously unnoticed usually jumps out at each re-hearing.

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Ry Cooder - Hymn

Joseph Spence - Run Come See Jerusalem

Here (as on the cover of the new album) Joseph is playing a Harmony H162 like one that I have

mine is 1957 . . . . .it rings like a bell and is one of my favourites