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| | CD review: "Lightnin', Joel & John Henry" |
 | | Lightnin' insisted the three brothers record together, so Strachwitz set up his portable tape recorder while the three musicians entertained themselves and their mother in John Henry's rather primitive shack (the photograph on the sleeve proves this description is no mere romanticization). |
 | | Joel plays in the traditional country style of Blind Lemon Jefferson, with whom he once lived, while John Henry's music is a vibrant, rough and rambling music, depending more on force of delivery and charisma than precision or technique. |
 | | Lightnin', as he was wont to do, improvised much of the material on the spot, such as the lead tune, "See About My Brother John Henry," which Strachwitz believes was made up right then, as he also believes was "I Got a Brother in Waxahachie" (the town where Lightnin' had finally tracked down John Henry). |
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