Click on the image for a new Historical Players Feature. This one introduces a previously unknown harp-guitar-playing gospel singer with a decades-long career. Meanwhile, I took the opportunity to research Alfred G. Karnes, who’s been on Wikipedia for many years as a “harp guitarist.” Was he or wasn’t he?
The liner notes (books, really) that Bear Family Records usually provide are impressive enough in themselves, but to have this article available to peruse when listening to the box in question is just all-out marvellous!