Doug Martsch

I have always loved blues influence in rock and roll -- Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Caustic Resin, but I had never heard traditional blues I liked too much. It was all too Jim Belushi for me. Then in '98 I was turned on to Fred McDowell's The First Recordings. It's a collection of slide guitar country blues recorded on Fred's porch by musicologist Alan Lomax in 1959. It sounded exactly like what I ...more