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Lefty Dizz
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LEFTY DIZZ (1937.04.29/Osceola, AK – 1993.09.07/Chicago, IL) started playing guitar at age 19 after a four-year hitch in the Air Force. Entirely self-taught, he played a standard right-handed model flipped upside down, without reversing the strings. His sound was raw and distorted and his style owed more to the older bluesmen than to the hipper West Side players like Otis Rush and Buddy Guy working in the B.B. King mode. By the time he came to Chicago, he had honed his craft well enough to become a member of Junior Wells’s band in 1964, recording and touring Africa, Europe and South… read more
LEFTY DIZZ (1937.04.29/Osceola, AK – 1993.09.07/Chicago, IL) started playing guitar at age 19 after a four-year hitch in the Air Force. Entirely self-taught, he played a standard right-hand… read more
LEFTY DIZZ (1937.04.29/Osceola, AK – 1993.09.07/Chicago, IL) started playing guitar at age 19 after a four-year hitch in the Air Force. Entirely self-taught, he played a standard right-handed model flipped upside down, without reversin… read more
