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On a visit a few weeks ago, John strummed and plucked » finger-snapping, toetapping, ragtime number with his youngest boy. “I play anything but rock ’n’ roll, soul and disco,” he emphasized. He doesn’t use a pick, just fingers with calluses that have grown rock hard from years of contact with metal strings. Occasionally, he’ll pick up an old knife hilt to use in slide guitar. Singing of John Henry and his hammer, the strings under the knife hilt echo the legendary hero’s driving steel as the bluesman’s thumping hand pounds out the rhythm of the trains. Jackson shook his head over the knife hilt a substitute in recent years for his old bottleneck-. According to Jackson, he had the perfect slide with the neck of a lemon extract bottle bought
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