Jackie Phelps

Apologies offered in advance, but any discussion of guitarist Jackie Phelps is also a discussion of "effing," or "eefing," which is a kind of rhythmic wheezing vocal that was said to be popular among hillbillies, although not to the extent that homemade liquor has been. There are examples of effing as far back as old-time music was recorded and an oral history of it before that. The phenomenon of mass culture even embraced effing briefly around the late '60s, along with just about everything else weird in existence. This is where Phelps comes in, however, because while Jimi He...