Though my fever’s finally broke, the ’20s blues fixation persists. My latest revelation has been Washington Phillips, a Texas gospel singer known according to wikipedia for playing “something resembling a fretless zither.” I’m not sure what a “fretless zither” is exactly. My best guess is that it’s a Jew on valium. Washington Phillips was not a Jew on valium but he was a great musician, one who only cut 16 songs, all of them recorded during the year’s 1927-1929, all of them worth playing on repeat.
Download:
MP3: Washington Phillips-”Lift Him Up, That’s All”
3 comments
Great Scott says:
August 21, 2008 at 9:30 am (UTC -7)
wow. What an awesome song. Should totally be scoring some scene in a movie.
anne. says:
August 21, 2008 at 9:35 am (UTC -7)
he played two of them at the same time, too!
Nate P. says:
August 21, 2008 at 9:55 am (UTC -7)
The Rahsaan Roland Kirk of zithers!