Editing Slide guitar (section)

== Lap slide guitar pioneers ==

[[Oscar "Buddy" Woods|Buddy Woods]] was a Louisiana street performer who recorded in the 1930s. He was called "The Lone Wolf" after the title of his most successful song, "Lone Wolf Blues". Between 1936 and 1938, he recorded ten songs that are today considered classics, including "Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away".{{sfn|Herzhaft|1992|pp=387–388}} Woods recorded five songs for the US [[Library of Congress]] in 1940 in Shreveport, Louisiana, including "Boll Weevil Blues" and "Sometimes I Get a Thinkin'".<ref name="congress-woods">{{cite web|last1=Lomax|first1=John Avery|author-link1=John Avery Lomax|last2=Lomax|first2=Ruby T.|author-link2=Ruby Terrill Lomax|title=Sometimes I Get a Thinkin'|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.11642/|website=[[Library of Congress|loc.gov]]|access-date=November 29, 2017|year=1940}}</ref><ref name="lone-wolf">{{cite web|last1=Lewis|first1=Uncle Dave|title=Buddy Woods – Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/buddy-woods-mn0000524696/biography|website=[[allmusic.com]]|access-date=November 22, 2017}}</ref>

[[Black Ace|"Black Ace" Turner]] (born Babe Karo Turner), a blues artist from Texas, was befriended and mentored by Buddy Woods. Historian Gérard Herzhaft said, "Black Ace is one of the few blues guitarists to have played in the purest Hawaiian style, that is, with the guitar flat on the knees."{{Sfn|Herzhaft|1992|p=20}} Turner played a square-neck National "style 2" Tri-cone metal body guitar and used a glass medicine bottle as a slide. Turner was also a good storyteller,  which enabled him to host a radio program in Fort Worth called ''The Black Ace''.<ref name="black-ace">{{cite web|last1=Walters|first1=Katherine Kuehler|title=Turner, Babe Kyro Lemon [Black Ace]|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftuka|website=[[Texas State Historical Association|tshaonline.org]]|access-date=November 22, 2017|date=June 15, 2010}}</ref> His career effectively ended when he entered military service in 1943.{{sfn|Herzhaft|1992|p=20}} His album, ''I Am the Boss Card in Your Hand'', contained Turner's original 1930s recordings as well as new songs recorded in 1960. Turner was featured in a 1962 documentary film entitled ''The Blues''.<ref name="black-ace" />

[[Freddie Roulette]] (born Frederick Martin Roulette) is a San Francisco-based lap steel blues artist who became interested in the lap steel guitar at an early age and became proficient enough to play in Chicago blues clubs with prominent players.{{sfn|Volk|2003|p=149}} He played an A7 tuning with a slant-bar style and never used finger picks.{{sfn|Volk|2003|p=152}} He earned a spot in Earl Hooker's band and recorded with Hooker in the 1960s.{{sfn|Danchin|2001|p=230}} Roulette had played lap steel in other genres before focusing on blues{{snd}}he stated this helped him add more complex chords to the basic blues played by Hooker and said, "it worked".<ref name="roulette-oral">{{cite web|title=Freddie Roulette|url=https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/freddie-roulette|website=[[National Association of Music Merchants|namm.org]]|access-date=November 26, 2017|date=June 12, 2016}}</ref> Roulette was recruited to San Francisco in the mid-1970s by [[Charlie Musselwhite]].<ref name="all-about-blues-music">{{cite web|title=Freddie Roulette|url=https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/freddie-roulette/|website=allaboutbluesmusic|date=28 April 2014|access-date=November 27, 2017}}</ref> In 1997, he recorded a solo album, ''Back in Chicago: Jammin' with Willie Kent and the Gents'', which won Best Blues Album of 1997 by ''Living Blues Magazine''.<ref name="blues-blast">{{cite web|last1=Watts|first1=Tee|title=Concert Review – Benefit for Freddie Roulette|url=http://www.bluesblastmagazine.com/concert-review-benefit-for-freddie-roulette/|website=bluesblastmagazine.com|access-date=November 26, 2017|date=December 9, 2015}}</ref> Roulette's contribution to the lap slide guitar was to prove that a lap-played instrument was capable of holding its own in Chicago blues style.<ref name="slide-lesson" />