Tampa Red - The Guitar Wizard: The Tampa Red Collection 1929-53 Release:The Guitar Wizard: The Tampa Red Collection 1929-53 Acrobat Despite the fact that the

Despite the fact that the pop landscape had been transformed over the preceding years by rock 'n' roll and it's aftermath

This 70-track 3-CD set comprises the complete contents

to which in 1948 was added the "Best Selling Retail Race Records"

it spurred him to reach out

songs that dramatize the romantic quests of five different men

Tampa Red - The Guitar Wizard: The Tampa Red Collection 1929-53 Release:The Guitar Wizard: The Tampa Red Collection 1929-53 Acrobat Despite the fact that theHudson Whittaker, better known as Tampa Red, was a hugely prolific and influential blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, an innovative slide guitarist and the first black musician to play a National steel bodied guitar. Moving from Florida to Chicago in the 1920s, he started recording in 1928 with Thomas Dorsey, playing in a hokum style as well as blues, over the years incorporating a pop oriented style with The Chicago Five. Playing electric guitar