In the Delta's of
Mississippi and in the Windy City of Chicago some of the greatest
blues players known to man emerged. Huddy Ledbetter, better known as
"Ledbelly, Muddy Waters, Bo Didley and B.B. King are some of the
Great Masters that came forth. Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton,
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Alvin Lee, Steve Miller and Jimi Hendrix all
followed and also found their place by mastering blues concepts.
But also long before the first guitar was carved, it was known that
another would come forth to make his guitar sing in celebration of
life and of the blues. Not from the Delta's of Mississippi or from
the Windy City of Chicago. But from a small insignificant town in
New Jersey surrounded by blueberry fields and pine trees. He would
not be better than the masters or even as good as those that
followed, but legend would have it that the Blues lived withinSquier
Red!
Although
I made attempts to play in my early teens, it was with electric
guitars that would almost cut your fingers off at the twelfth fret.
My knowledge was a few bar chords and a couple of bars of this song
or that shown to me by my friends and more advanced players. Briefly
as a young man I bought a Gibson Maurauder and Peavey Backstage Amp
which went the way of a pawn shop in hard times before any more
chords could be achieved. Now in my fifties, I once again
visit my youth.