"I made up a lot of the songs I sing. It's like you hear a record or something or other. Well, you pick out some words out of that record that you like. You sing that and add something else onto it. It's just like if you're going to pray, and mean it, things will be in your mind. As fast as you get one word out, something else will come in there. Songs should tell the truth... When I play-- if you pay attention, what I sing the guitar sings, too. And what the guitar say, I say." Mississippi Fred McDowell
Posted on 10/29/2007
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Thanks for posting. I haven't listened to him since the that special aired. His "I Do Not Play No Rock'n'Roll " is one of my favorite electric blues from 1969.