Moses Williams, one-string guitar

It's pretty awesome how I came across Mr. Williams. I stumbled across his tombstone, it reads:

sMOSES "DOORMAN" WILLIAMS

1919-1988

BLUES MUSICIAN

MASTER OF THE 

ONE STRING GUITAR

I took a picture because it's at a county cemetery in Bartow, Fl, Shady Oaks Cemetery , makes me wonder why and how this man with such great talent could be buried away in a cemetery that's so isolated and not maintained at all and everyone has forgotten about him.

That is from YouTube comments. All of the comments on YouTube are kind, they all say, "fascinating," "awesome," "mind blown," "astonishing," and "wonderful."

The British kids showed the video a few days ago. I didn't care to look at it. They titled it, "the most basic blues" and that did not interest me, however their intense interest in the video then did make it interesting to me. Their comments are similar to YouTube comments.

Frankly, the video is boring. Most of the video shows Moses tearing off the wire from a broom. He takes a very long time to do this, skip, skip, skippy, skip, talking throughout while digging at the tightly wound wire with a claw hammer. He's after the wire. Not the stick.

At length, great length, 20 minutes of wire digging, he attaches the wire to screws drilled into both ends of a narrow hollow door. He uses two bridges shoved between wire and door near the screw. He takes time to adjust his bridges,  a whiskey bottle for one bridge and a bent tin for another. He plays the string with another thin bottle and his fingers and pats the door. He sets his fingers upon the string making it hum and buzz and thump the door and the whole room is filled with beat rhythm and melody.He plays at the very beginning of the video and at the end and that's all we're having of his music and wanting more. The video is him talking while digging at a broom. This is Americana that the British kids are grasping and YouTube commenters are appreciating.

It seems, everyone gets more out of this than I. This is what people do to have fun when no proper instruments are around. He does it impressively well. The whole time I was thinking, Jeeze, go to Home Depot and get yourself a roll of wire.