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Did you know... that according to a commentator, fiddle player Joe Thompson "was the inspiration for a national revival of stringband music"?
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According to Eagle and LeBlanc, Blues: A Regional Experience, his father's name was John Arch Thompson, and Odell Thompson was Joe's brother (not cousin). Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:43, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ghmyrtle I agree with the father's name, but every source I used state Odell is a cousin. Does Eagle and LeBlanc's book trump them all?TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:52, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(We don't use that word....) Not at all, but I thought I should point it out. I have no idea which is correct, and BARE is certainly not infallible. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:56, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]