Young James Jamerson is looking pretty tuff in 1958

Three years before he would buy his first electric bass, and then go on to pretty much define the vocabulary of that instrument, James Jamerson poses with his first bandleader Washboard Willie.  You can keep yr Jimi, yr Page, EVH, all those wheedley-wheedley motherfuckers, I’ll take JJ over him any day of the ever.  The fkkn best ever, a true innovator with a genius instinct for both rhythmic drive and counterpoint.

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