2:36It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James (Acoustic Cover)
Tampa Red
1940sAcoustic
Rare acoustic footage of Tampa Red, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
Acoustic performances strip music down to its essence. Without amplification, effects, or the energy of a full band, it’s just the song and the musician. These clips — recorded in dressing rooms, radio stations, living rooms, and intimate venues — often reveal dimensions of familiar songs that the full arrangements obscure.
Hudson Whittaker, better known by his stage name Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician. His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James.
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