Celebrating Joe Maphis, born Otis W. Maphis (May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986), one of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, known as “The King of the Strings.”
Joe Maphis
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I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it. View more posts
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