Harding "Hop" Wilson[1] (April 27, 1921 – August 27, 1975)[2] was an American Texas blues steel guitar player.
[3] Wilson gained the nickname "Hop" as a devolution of "Harp" due to his constant playing of a harmonica as a child.
[4] He was described as having "absorbed not only the black Texas blues as sung and played by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson but also the heavily amplified, often wildly distorted, steel guitar sounds of the region's white Western Swing bands.
[8] Peter Green, founder of Fleetwood Mac, interviewed in 2007 discussing his favourite blues artists, stated "then there's Hop Wilson, a slide guitar player from Houston who used a twin-neck lap steel.
"Well, Hop left us, man" "He did, Albert" "Boy he sure played that guitar over at the Red Lily Cube" "Yeah he layed that steel in his lap, he'd be gettin' down" "I used to like the way he said..." (song begins).