Booker T. Washington White
"Bukka"

Doing the Booker Boogie at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium.

Bukka White's powerful pre-war recordings inspired a posse of blues fans to search the South for him.

Unlike some of his contemporaries, Bukka was thrilled to be "rediscovered," since his passion for music had never diminished. With pure enthusiasm for life, Booker (as he preferred to be called) made the most of the 60's, introducing young audiences to the thundering, primal sound of World Boogie.

This clip is unusual because we catch Booker playing a wooden body Gibson rather than his National Steel. Booker usually couldn't be trusted with fragile instruments. His beefy build and power playing style had been known to crush ordinary guitars.

Listen to Bukka White in RealPlayer8 format.

(Note: The difference in quality is significant.
Dialup users who are hardcore Bukka fans might prefer to download the link for the larger file, which is about 1.74Mb for just over a minute in playing time.
To do this, Windows users should right click on this link here and select
"Save Target As..." to download.
Afterdownloading locate the file BukkaWhite2.rm in Windows Explorer and play it by double-clicking on the file name.

See the Windows Media file of Bukka White.

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