Fred’s fresh, 30 years later.

Mississippi Fred McDowell in Guitar Player

I believe it would be fair to say that befriending and working with Mississippi Fred McDowell was the most important professional experience in my partner Tom’s life. And from the day we broke up the company until the day he died Tom never tired of honoring that relationship. In music, or on the radio, or in the press, or even in his commercial work, he found a way to tell the world about his teacher, mentor, and friend. This article, an homage Tom wrote for Guitar Player magazine, is an example that he showed me years after its publication date in 1977, but is as fresh 30 years later as the day it was written.