John Oates w/ a Vintage F-30

This is a pretty cool photo of John Oates playing a vintage F-30 SB; while standing in the middle of a cotton field. The link is to his website, which opens with the photo:

http://johnoates.com/

In this article in Billboard magazine he states that the guitar "is the one that Mississippi John Hurt played at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival." He currently owns the guitar.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8097501/john-oates-arkansas-album-premiere

The Billboard article is about Oates' new Americana-music release "Arkansas". The album began as a tribute to MJH, but then expanded to cover artists like Blind Blake, Jimmy Rodgers and W.C. Handy. Some of the songs are played in an acoustic setting, and others with a roots-rock backing band. Looks like I'll be making a trip to the Record Store tomorrow.

That's a cool mix of songs !

My wife and I had a chance to meet John backstage at a Hall and Oates show two years ago. My son knew him through some work they did together in Spain and set up a meet w him prior to the show...extremely nice guy. We talked for a few minutes and then as we were leaving he said "hey how about we take a few photos?" Completely defused that awkward ask for a picture thing...a real pro. As we were leaving I said to my wife "you know I normally don't like to oblige having my photo taken with fans but it seemed like John really wanted one with me". "You're an ar$e" she replied.

HA!!!

He plays the G chord just like Dreadnut!!!!

You're a trend setter m'man.

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Hey, Bill, Thanks form posting that. I'll picking up that album myself!

That's a great photo too!

Love Hall and Oates! Glad to see John is happy and making the music he wants to. I read his autobiography, "Change of Seasons", last year - a very good read!

walrus