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See our blog entry with photographs here:

http://www.inhousefilms.com/eric-bibb-playing-discussing-booker-whites-guitar/

Delving into our archives we're happy to release for the very first time this full interview with world famous blues musician Eric Bibb.
In the blues, a guitar can be as famous as the man who played it.
B.B. King has Lucille, the curvy hollow-bodied Gibson electric he caresses in concert. Clapton calls his Stratocaster, Blackie.

Then there's the legendary National steel guitar of early Delta bluesman Booker White, a peer of blues pioneer Robert Johnson.
In this previously unreleased film, Eric discusses and plays the instrument described by B.B King as a "holy relic" and known simply as Hard Rock.

The guitar found its way into Eric's arms, in a story that is as legendary as Robert Johnson at the crossroads, as old as the blues itself. A traveling musician has a chance encounter in the most unlikely of places with something mystical and powerful. So it was for Eric Bibb one night after a gig, when he was approached by a fan carrying a guitar case. Inside the case was a relic from the past that made the hair on the back of Bibbs neck stand on end: the actual 1930s vintage Resophonic National steel-body guitar that had belonged to Delta blues legend Booker White. Bibb found himself holding Bookers guitar, and catching a brief but revealing glimpse of all the stories locked within it. The encounter inspired a song, and the song became an entire album; one that captures the spirit of the original Delta blues of the early 20th century and reinterprets it for a new era.

We were given the chance to sit down with Eric and it was an incredible experience to hear him play the guitar and to open up about what it meant to him on a spiritual level.