Another neglected and now-obscure guitarist of the period is Snoozer Quinn.  Based in New Orleans, he was a favorite of Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer and worked for a year with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra but eventually returned to New Orleans, working club jobs and at one point backing up hillbilly singer (later governor) Jimmie Davis.  There are few existing records – none in print at this time – and Quinn even in his own time was unknown to the general public.  He seems to have been something of a missing link between country blues guitarists and early soloists like Lonnie and Lang.  He retained the steady bass roll (alternated thumb) of "ragtime" blues, adding partial chords on middle strings and melody line on top, rather the way later guitarists like George Van Eps and Lenny Breau have come to play.  Quinn was, writes Mongan, "an artist whose style represents an important evolutionary step in jazz guitar history.  Unfortunately for the twenties' public, Snoozer's intimate, swinging guitar sounds were lost in the clamor of the Whiteman organization.