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Originally Posted by JonPR
High life is more Ghana/Nigeria, played by bands, but yes the guitar style is very similar.
This guy (also from Sierra Leone) was great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd_-p2R0U3w
They (or he, at least!) called that Palm Wine Music. |
This was back in the sixties. He was ten, maybe twenty years older than me. He could have been learning guitar back in the thirties or forties. He called it Highlife, not me. What I can recall was alternating thumb and the most amazing syncopation. Quite distinct from, say, Travis picking.