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Eddie "Snoozer" Quinn was a guitar genius. Incredible virtuoso, he developed a unique style in jazz that allowed him to play a melody and rhythmic bass line at the same time. Sadly only a silent film (made by Don Paterson around 1932) shows his masterful fingerstyle technique.
In 1948, in a tuberculosis ward at a hospital in New Orleans, Johnny Wiggs recorded Quinn a few month before he died.
https://youtu.be/sb18zpephAM
Snoozer Quinn - Snoozer's Telephone Blues - 1948

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According to Wiggs, Snoozer was ' pretty weak', a moving photo of Snoozer holding his L-0 Gibson taken by Wiggs confirm his extreme thinness.
Despite more than imperfect circumstances, these recordings show his remarkable virtuosity and superior musicianship.
For testimony, this "telephone blues" (slack C tuning) that I particularly appreciate
Thanks to Katy Hobgood Ray and Dan Sumner (for transcription) for bringing this legend to life.