Buffalo Nichols

Nichols is a great arranger and player, and his songwriting is unafraid to live in the darkness that underlies the blues. His rasp, and Spencer Tate's mandolin and violin voicing, really works well with the resonator + slide sound, on both his originals and covers. "The kind of suffering that created the blues is not the natural state of the world if you ask me. It ought not be. It is just the result of greed. And we could do something about that if we care enough."