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Acoustic Guitar 
By: John Libbo
Many years ago, for the first time ever live to an audience, Bob Dylan took his steps on the stage and began to play his electric guitar. He was completely, taken with his play and ignored the reaction of the audience to the obnoxious rock music. He continued plugging in and playing. His act was such a revolution of the music's world. That event occupied the front pages of all the newspapers that time. Based on the few differences between it and the blues music, the elder blues musicians listening to him caused the leaving of acoustic blues guitar in the dust.
Back in Chicago in the 1930's or so there was a movement that was growing. Many of the blues musicians that had played their time in the Mississippi delta area were now bringing their brand of acoustic blues guitar music to Chicago and it was met with enthusiasm. Muddy Waters and Son House were huge stars in Chicago and they would play that acoustic blues guitar until people were just going wild. Then along came musicians like Howling Wolf who put aside the acoustic blues guitar and picked up the electric guitar and soon the days of the acoustic blues guitar were numbered. Wolf and other artists started recording classic acoustic blues guitar hits on electric guitars and that was the music that got out to the people. Soon Son House and the others were relics and Robert Johnson and that famous picture of him and his acoustic blues guitar became treasured pieces of the past.
As soon as the electric guitar controlled the blues world, Jimi Hendrix insisted to record his movie while playing. As he was playing Here My Train A Comin', a feeling such as locating on the delta near the turn of the century facing us. Especially, during those days when Robert Johnson was entering one bar and leaving it to another, just for an aim of preserving his guitar's playing. Looking to that great time, we will aware that we lost it forever.
The acoustic guitar gets its due once in a while on blues and rock records but it will never be a main instrument like it used to be all of those years ago. The sound can never be mistaken and the music played on it was right from the heart and we will never hear music played like that ever again.
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