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J.B. Hutto: Southside Hawk

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972

IT'S NOT surprising that there should be more than a trace of Elmore James and Muddy Waters in the playing of J.B. Hutto, described in the publicity for his first British visit as "probably the finest contemporary Southside Chicago bluesman playing steel slide guitar."

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