John Dilleshaw

Calling John Dilleshaw a bandleader or guitarist doesn't seem quite enough, as fronting groups named Seven Foot Dilly & the Hot Pickles or Dilly & His Dill Pickles seems more like a sheer act of courage, unless one is playing table to table in a deli. Bear in mind, however, that this was the '20s and '30s, the eras of commercially recorded string band music, and even a group that didn't have a corn pone name would wind up acquiring one by the time the instruments were back in the cases at the end of a recording session. In this case, the group's name was based on long John's h...