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declare, "Hey, that's Jack White's guitar!" Although White has played other electrics, the
Airline Res-O-Glas is the one with which White Stripes fans most closely associate him. And it makes sense: this oddly shaped, molded fiberglass creation (also dubbed the "Jetsons model," understandably) is perfect representation of the White Stripes' music and garage rock in general ... We're not sure quite what the actual sales figures were, but wouldn't you love to know just how many kids in the early 1960s flipped through that Montgomery Ward Catalog (where these guitars were originally retailed), pointed to the space-aged red beauty on the page, and said, "I'm having
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Prior to the late 1990s, this guitar might have been known—to the relatively few players who took a real interest—as the "J. B. Hutto model" after the
Chicago bluesman who made one his main squeeze for many years. One glance at that synthetic red beauty today, though, and you're likely to
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Later in the 1950s, Hutto became disenchanted with performing and gave it up after a woman broke his guitar over her husband's head one night in a club where he was playing. For the next eleven years, he worked as a janitor in a funeral home to supplement his income. He returned to the music industry
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Chicago, Hutto took up the drums and played with Johnny Ferguson and his Twisters. He also played the piano before settling on the guitar and performing on the streets with the percussionist Eddie "Porkchop" Hines. They added Joe Custom on the second guitar and started playing club gigs. The
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died in 1975, Hutto took over Taylor's band, the House
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joined after sitting in with the band. Hutto named his band the Hawks after the wind that blows in
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in the mid-1960s with a new version of the Hawks featuring Herman
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on guitar, and
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Hutto served as a draftee in the Korean War in the early 1950s, driving trucks in combat zones.
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328:"Dim Lights" / "Things Are So Slow", J. B. Hutto and His Hawks (Chance Records; CH-1165), 1954
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playing and declamatory style of singing. He was inducted into the
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600:The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings
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519:Ledbitter and Slaven (1987), p. 650.
397:(Varrick, 1983) - Reissued on CD as
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537:. Cascadeblues.org. Archived from
266:Hutto's grave at Restvale Cemetery
175:Joseph Benjamin Hutto was born in
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602:. London: Penguin Books. p. 299.
401:(Bullseye Blues & Jazz, 1999)
893:Black & Blue Records artists
873:20th-century American guitarists
741:"J. B. Hutto : Discography"
868:Musicians from Augusta, Georgia
709:. Voyageur Press. p. 103.
598:Russell, T.; Smith, S. (2006).
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216:Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1
858:Deaths from cancer in Illinois
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648:"1985 Hall of Fame Inductees"
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570:"Hawk Squat : Credits"
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703:"1964 Airline Res-O-Glas"
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863:Vanguard Records artists
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467:"J. B. Hutto: Biography"
443:List of slide guitarists
340:Chicago/The Blues/Today!
155:musician. Influenced by
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433:List of blues musicians
359:Masters of Modern Blues
16:American blues musician
843:American blues singers
673:Russell, Tony (1997).
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47:Background information
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828:Grammy Award winners
701:Dave Hunter (2013).
492:Rowe (1981), p. 114.
399:Rock With Me Tonight
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781:. Da Capo Press.
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379:Slidewinder
312:Discography
236:Lee Jackson
117:Instruments
25:J. B. Hutto
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449:References
369:Hawk Squat
353:Otis Spann
306:Jack White
228:Hawk Squat
109:Occupation
68:1926-04-26
53:Birth name
752:March 26,
581:March 26,
463:Koda, Cub
363:Testament
300:sold via
220:Testament
139:1954–1983
37:Hutto in
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472:AllMusic
422:See also
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343:Vol. 1 (
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