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Style/Series: Longform - Hardcore Studies Format: EPS (Extended Play Single) Recording Date: 2015 Release Date: Various Track Notes (Bandcamp):
LATE NIGHTS IN THE LAB:
EPS NOTES: All that is known about Henry Sloan is he was an itinerant field hand who was the first known Delta blues musician. He may have been the slide guitarist W. C. Handy heard on the Tutwiler railway station platform. And it was rumored that Sloan was one of Charley Patton's teachers. Although this wasn't particularly encouraged by Sloan himself. Robert Palmer, in his blues history book, "Deep Blues," said Patton "dogged his every step, at least for a few years." This recording is not intended to project or fabricate what Sloan might have sounded like. He would not have sounded like my playing, because I have a technical background. I just wanted my own limited experience of what creating early Delta blues might have felt like. Some say Patton copied Sloan. I doubt that. Charlie could only be Charlie. But he might have borrowed a cuo of Sloan's blues and never paid it back.
There are no recordings of Henry Sloan to verify any of this. He was probably too rough to
interest early Delta blues recording labels like Paramount and ARC. Sloan wasn't an entertainer
like Patton. This track was spontaneously composed in one take.
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