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As he developed his own style he experimented with different keys, invented some original tunings and significantly added to his arsenal of complex slide guitar structures, complementing pulsing rhythmic patterns with often intricate single or double string runs with the bottle. According to notes from the internet radio show Big Road Blues, Turner cut a couple of tracks for the ARC label in 1936 but these were never released.
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Regular radio work followed and some tracks were captured for Vocalion in 1938 but, like the earlier ARC pieces, were never released. He also made a fleeting ‘blink and you'll miss it' film appearance in 1941's "Blood of Jesus", appropriately enough at the crossroads, which was directed by Spencer Williams Jr. - although his thumping blues "Golden Slipper" is almost given a full hearing during a dance scene.
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Turner's interest in making music seems to have come to an end after he got drafted to fight in World War II in 1943. At the end of the war he found himself in numerous non-musical jobs Nike Air Max Lebron, including picking cotton and a janitor at an airport, eventually ending up in the Don Juarez photographic studio where he was found by Paul Oliver and Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in
Six recordings for the Decca label were recorded and released in 1937. Amongst the recordings was a track which was to become his theme tune - "Black Ace". Turner recalled in a later interview with Paul Oliver, "When I was broadcasting they had me play that for a theme song." As the show on KFJZ radio in Fort Worth, Texas was introduced Shox Turbo mens, Turner was announced as the Black Ace and the name stuck.
Babe Karo Lemon Turner was born in Hughes Springs, Texas in December 1905. His childhood Nike Air Force high, teens and early adulthood were spent working on the family farm. Hours were long, work was hard and few profit-making opportunities presented themselves. There was little time for relaxing distractions and what did pass for entertainment tended to be home grown.
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Turner learned some music fundamentals from plucking on a crude wire-stringed instrument made by his brother and singing in local church choirs. He was in his early twenties when he bought his first guitar - writes Paul Oliver, "not a good instrument, but one on which he could play the blues that came into his head as he worked on the farm."
He went on to take the basics of Woods' technique much further, blocking whole chords in the Sevastopol (more commonly known as Vestapol or open D) tuning, using the sides and corners of a small medicine bottle to stop single notes. With a newly acquired National steel-bodied Hawaiian Squareneck Kalamazoo KG-11 resonator guitar across his lap and deep brooding voice belting out original blues tunes, Turner soon found himself to be in great demand.
Like it had done with many other families throughout the US, the depression forced Turner to leave the nest and seek his fortune elsewhere. In Shreveport, Louisiana he met and teamed up with a blues singer named Oscar "Buddy" Woods, who employed a Hawaiian steel guitar laid flat across his lap and used a bottle neck to slide and stop the rhythmic accompaniment to his vocals. Buck Turner (as he was then known) studied the older player and soon found that this unusual style and sound also suited him.