The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music By John Engel
ROBERT LUNN


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Plays Guitar Left Handed Upside/Down.


The once famous ‘Talking Blues Man,’ Robert Lunn was a number one attraction on the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s. More of a comedian than a musician, he accompanied himself on guitar, strumming it left-handed upside down. Through his immense popularity, he was responsible for popularizing the talking-blues song form and generating adaptations of it that live on to this day. In the late 1930s, Woody Guthrie would use it for more serious purposes (e.g., “Talking Dust Bowl”), launching another adaptation of the form, soon to be embraced by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and many others.

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Read about Robert Lunn's life in John Engel's Uncommon Sound book.