In the mighty hard weather of music history it’s a stretch to try and verify who did what, when, and why. Not being a guitar player I can still see with my own ears. Whether Mr. Christian lifted the role of guitar from that of accompanist to leading the show or not, you sure can feel the “I got this” when he plays his ax!
Writer Chester Himes
“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”
from the annals of our literary history, Worcester’s own