Tom never gave up the flame.

Mississippi Fred McDowell in Guitar Player November 1977

For almost 30 years after Fred McDowell passed in 1972 Tom Pomposello never gave up the flame, continuing to listen closely to his recordings and reflecting on their conversations together to learn lessons from his master, especially about the guitar. He shares some of them in this detailed article about Fred’s style in the November 1977 Guitar Player, calling him “one of the most important rural blues guitarists to come out of the Blues Revival of the 1960s.”