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A scene that sticks in my mind is Dylan on the back porch of the Muscle Shoals Studio. Trading licks on acoustic guitar with Eddie Hinton. They buddied up and for a while were inseparable. To me Eddie is one of the enigmas of Southern music. I saw him as the anointed one, the white Otis Redding….
How strange and wonderful, then, to remember Bob Dylan and Eddie Hinton as soul brothers. Two poets, one world renowned, the other known only to a few friends, neighbors and fans. Both riveting, both brilliant. -Jerry Wexler & David Ritz, “Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music”
The musical landscape of the American South is almost cinematic in its breadth and its scope. It is a landscape that is populated by the tales of many noble, yet far too human, men and women. Where legacies are created and where dreams can be dashed.
Some musicians live in the spotlight, while others dwell in anonymous shadows. Sometimes brilliance and talent are greater than one lifetime can contain. Far too many times, our appreciation of an individual’s musical legacy is regrettably posthumous. They become part of our shared listening experience and our shared history.
Eddie Hinton was one of those dwellers in the shadows. His talents should have placed him in the status of a Duane Allman or an Eric Clapton. I became enamored of the voice of Eddie Hinton in the wake of my brother’s suicide in 1996. There was something about the raw, almost Pentecostal voice of Eddie Hinton that mirrored my own feelings at the time.
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