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SPENCE, Joseph

(b 3 Aug. '10, Andros, the Bahamas; d 18 March '84) Guitarist, singer; played hymns, anthems, island songs with a jazz musician's sense of time, interaction of voice and guitar like that of the best bluesmen. Infl. Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, many others. Recorded from '58: Happy All The Time on Elektra; Music Of The Bahamas and Folk Guitar (with John Roberts and Frederick McQueen), both on Folkways; Good Morning Mr Walker on Arhoolie and On The Hallelujah Side on Rounder; also heard on two vols of The Real Bahamas '65 on Nonesuch.