🎀 Cute Composer Series: Disability Pride Month — Community Vote Results 🗳️🎶 Thank you SO much to everyone who dropped names in the comments 💙 The community brought it — and I’m featuring your two picks! Reverend Gary Davis (1896–1972) — nominated by @cow_in_opposition : "My father loved playing his tunes when I was growing up — didn't know they were written by a blind South Carolina minister until I was a teenager" 💙 A blind African American blues and gospel guitarist from South Carolina, self-taught, street-performing in Durham and Harlem for decades before the folk revival found him 🎶 He made his first guitar from a pie pan and a stick as a child. His fingerpicking technique was so advanced @cow_in_opposition put it best: "He developed some really progressive blues technique and a particularly sophisticated writing style." His students included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ry Cooder, and Dave Van Ronk. Samson and Delilah and Death Don't Have No Mercy are cornerstones of American roots music 🔥 Tony Iommi (b. 1948) — nominated by @doubledducc_ Founder and sole continuous member of Black Sabbath, inventor of heavy metal, and as @cmurgueitio perfectly noted: "Iommi is a fine choice indeed, and he also drew inspiration from Django Reinhardt" — which connects beautifully back to our Disability Pride Month series earlier post✨ At 17, a factory accident severed two fingertips on his fretting hand. He fashioned plastic prosthetics, tuned down his guitar, and built the slow crushing riff architecture that every heavy metal band since has lived inside. Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2012 — he scheduled chemo around tour dates, flew back to Birmingham every six weeks for treatment, achieved remission in 2016, and played Black Sabbath's final show in their hometown in 2017. 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙 Recordings: 🎶 Rev. Gary Davis: Death Don't Have No Mercy — Live at Newport, 1965 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NtS_Eg9wOM 🎶 Tony Iommi / Black Sabbath: Iron Man — guitar tab with on-screen notation by Jamie Irwin - Guitar Tuition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5QvPE5KTiE
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