sailingshoes72
Senior Member
This is a pretty cool photo of John Oates playing a vintage F-30 SB; while standing in the middle of a cotton field. The link is to his website, which opens with the photo:
http://johnoates.com/
In this article in Billboard magazine he states that the guitar "is the one that Mississippi John Hurt played at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival." He currently owns the guitar.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8097501/john-oates-arkansas-album-premiere
The Billboard article is about Oates' new Americana-music release "Arkansas". The album began as a tribute to MJH, but then expanded to cover artists like Blind Blake, Jimmy Rodgers and W.C. Handy. Some of the songs are played in an acoustic setting, and others with a roots-rock backing band. Looks like I'll be making a trip to the Record Store tomorrow.
http://johnoates.com/
In this article in Billboard magazine he states that the guitar "is the one that Mississippi John Hurt played at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival." He currently owns the guitar.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8097501/john-oates-arkansas-album-premiere
The Billboard article is about Oates' new Americana-music release "Arkansas". The album began as a tribute to MJH, but then expanded to cover artists like Blind Blake, Jimmy Rodgers and W.C. Handy. Some of the songs are played in an acoustic setting, and others with a roots-rock backing band. Looks like I'll be making a trip to the Record Store tomorrow.
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