Lightnin' Hopkins!!! One man, a guitar, tapping feet and a trunkload  of 
great songs. What more do you need?
 
Otherwise I'll go with Booker T. & the MG's, the Buckaroos, NRBQ, Los  Lobos, 
Holmes Brothers, the Bluegrass Boys, the Clinch Mountain Boys, Country  
Gentlemen, Louvin Brothers, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Fabulous  Thunderbirds 
(early years), the Avett Brothers, Uncle Earl, Creech Holler,  Gillian Welch & 
David Rawlings, SCOTS, Mississippi Sheiks, Original Carter  Family, Sonny 
Terry & Brownie McGhee, Doc & Merle Watson, Leroy Carr  & Scrapper Blackwell, 
Memphis Jug Band, Lovin' Spoonful, the Texas Playboys,  Maddox Brothers & Rose, 
the Soul Stirrers, Nat King Cole Trio, various Muddy  Waters and Howlin' Wolf 
bands, and any group that included Doug Sahm.
 
Notice how most of the best American music comes from the South  or was 
Southern influenced? Almost all of it.
 
Jim McGuinness
Yankee in the South
 



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