James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues SUN Records 78rpm Strong VG+ Pat Hare

$

525

James Cotton 
Cotton Crop Blues b/w Hold Me In Your Arms
original SUN Records 78rpm #206
w/ Pat Hare on guitar. 

...Pat Hare's heavily distorted, power-chord-driven electric guitar music in the early 1950s is considered an important 
precursor to heavy metal music. His guitar solo on James Cotton's electric blues record
 "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954) was the first record to use heavily distorted power chords, anticipating
elements of that future style. According to Robert Palmer: "Rarely has a grittier, nastier, more ferocious
electric guitar sound been captured on record, before or since, and Hare's repeated use of a rapid
series of two downward-modulating power chords, the second of which is allowed to hang menacingly
 in the air, is a kind of hook or structural glue. [...] The first heavy metal record? I'd say yes, with
tongue only slightly in cheek." The other side of the single was "Hold Me in Your Arms"; both songs
"featured a guitar sound so overdriven that with the historical distance of several decades, it now
sounds like a direct line to the coarse, distorted tones favored by modern rock players."
According to Allmusic, "what is now easily attainable by 16-year-old kids on modern-day effects pedals
 just by stomping on a switch, Hare was accomplishing with his fingers and turning
 the volume knob on his Sears & Roebuck cereal-box-sized amp
all the way to the right until the speaker was screaming."

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