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Originally Posted by LightninBoy
Blind Willie Johnson has an etheral sounding vibrato that I've been trying to emulate for years.
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I think one of the reasons he sounds that way is because it is highly likely he played with a pocketknife or some such other object held in his hand as opposed to wearing a
slide on his finger. I have videos of Mance Lipscomb playing this way and he sounds eerily like Blind Willie Johnson at times.
I was actually thinking about this today because I was recording a Blind Willie Johnson tune this afternoon. It's a lot easier for me to get that strange sounding vibrato that way, but it's pretty hard to get any degree of accuracy!