John Morthland, Wondering Sound, 25 January 2013
ELMORE JAMES is often demeaned as a one-trick pony — or, in his case, a one lick pony. That would be the swooping, stinging slide guitar figure he played on 'Dust My Broom', his first record, in 1951.
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