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Posted - Oct 23 2018 : 13:10:22
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That was fantastic!
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
Arcane OMO - Circa 2001
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 Posted - Oct 30 2018 : 06:48:53
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I recently downloaded Ry Cooder's lastest solo release The Prodgial Son - his first in about 6 years. (See, I'm not just an old school vinyl snob ... ok, I really just wanted the immediate gratification.)
Ry Cooder (born Ryland Peter Cooder) is a multi-instrumentalist who first picked up a guitar at age 3. His resume is about as long as you can imagine. Aside from solo work and the occasional stint with a group, he's collaborated or done session work with just about anyone you can think of. He's also done numerous movie soundtracks. His first gig was playing banjo in a trio with Doc Watson and Bill Monroe. Monroe told him, "Well son, you're just not ready." His first significant attention came as a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. The group was playing at a warm up festival for Monterrey Pop and during a performance Captain Beefheart (real name, Don Van Vliet) froze, straightened his tie and proceeded to walk off the front of the stage, falling 10 feet. Later he said he'd seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth. Cooder promptly left the band and an opportunity for breakthrough success went with it. Captain Beefheart had to cancel because there was no way he could find another guitar player who could play the intricate parts Cooder had developed on such short notice.
My first exposure to his music was in the 1980 film The Long Riders. Next was the 1986 film Crossroads (you didn't really think that was Ralph Macchio playing, did you? By the way, the competition in the final scenes was Steve Vai.). Then it was John Hiatt's Bring the Family album and a short lived project with the alumni from that album called Little Village.
As I mentioned, Cooder is a multi-instumentalist, but he often plays his "Coodercaster", a 1960 Fender Stratocaster Buddy Holly reproduction modified as follows:
- Bridge pickup: An Oahu/Valco lap-steel pickup assembly, the body was routed out to accomodate that and is notched for the Fender tailpiece.
- Neck pickup: Teisco pickup he got from David Lindley.
- Neck: A "C" model he got from David Lindley.
The strings are flatwound, tuned in G.
Anyways ...
Here's "the Master of Tone", on his Coodercaster, playing the title track from The Prodigal Son. (That's his son, Joachim, on percussion.)
Another tidbit, he pays homage to pedal steel legend, Ralph Mooney in the song.
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Posted - Nov 06 2018 : 03:56:27
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Tracy Chapman, Give Me One Reason
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Posted - Jan 08 2019 : 06:24:57
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I first heard Good Time Boogie on the radio back in the mid 70's. It was on an album entitle John Mayall Jazz Blues Fusion and I immediately started a search for it. (Of course, no Google) Eventually I found it ... and then found it again on CD during the period when my turntable was kind of on hiatus. (I never thought vinyl would make a comeback.)
There's a lot of good music on the album, but Here's the one that got me hooked.
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Posted - Jan 22 2019 : 09:44:55
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Bad to the Bone, by George Thorogood.
That's Bo Diddly playing pool with him and the old guy that comes in later - the legendary Willie Mosconi.
Awww, heck ... How about a 2'fer?
Gear Jammer
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Posted - Jan 29 2019 : 10:21:42
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Muddy Waters (real name: McKinley Morganfield)
Mannish Boy
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Posted - Feb 05 2019 : 08:52:56
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Willie Dixon Back Door Man
One of the Doors' biggest hits was a cover of this song.
Dixon was also a noted player of the upright bass. Check it out.
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Posted - Feb 12 2019 : 06:54:19
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You had to figure this one was coming eventually...
You could say the origin of the Blues Brothers dates back to the January 17, 1976 episode of [Saturday Night Live when John Belushi, dressed as a killer bee sang Slim Harpo's I'm a King Bee, backed by Dan Aykroyd on harmonica also dressed as a killer bee.
This clip features a bit of that original SNL sequence.
Dan Aykroyd had long had an interest in the blues dating back to his college days and included playing some with the Downchild Blues Band. After joining the SNL cast, Aykroyd rented the Holland Tunnel Blues Bar and filled the jukebox with blues tunes and kept instruments on hand in case anyone cared to jam. Aykroyd introduced Belushi to the blues during this time. Belushi said he was getting tired of rock and had no interest in disco, but the blues became a fascination. He and Aykroyd would occasionally sing with local blues bands. SNL band leader Howard Shore suggested the Blues Brothers name as a joke.
Paul Shaffer began helping the pair in putting a band together featuring some members of the SNL band and some others from the 60's soul/blues scene, including Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn - formerly from Booker T and the MG's. the first SNL performance as the Blues Brothers came on the April 22, 1978 episode.
Here they are, opening for the Grateful Dead on New Year's Eve. (49:35)
For a shorter clip, here's their signature song Soul Man.
... and, yes Dan Aykroyd can definitely play the harmonica pretty darn well.
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Posted - Feb 26 2019 : 09:39:58
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Yeah, John Mayer is probably more famous for songs like Daughters and Why Georgia?, but he's also been kind of a regular at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival and at Farm Aid laying down some blues.
Here's his version of Elmore James' Crossroads.
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Posted - Mar 05 2019 : 05:48:33
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The basic 12 bar blues is one of the more common chord progressions in music. The "I' chord is the tonal (i.e., the key you're playing) and the "IV" and "V" are called the subdominant and dominant respectively. For example, if you're playing in the key of A, it would look like this:
Now, what would happen if you took the basic 12 bar blues form and picked up the tempo, including playing 8 bass notes for each bar (8 to the bar)?
Let's let Doņa Oxford school you on The Boogie Woogie.
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Posted - Mar 19 2019 : 09:04:04
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Back in 1980, I had what I'd still say was the best job I ever had. I worked at Camelot Music. Other than maybe working in a head shop, working in a record store was about as good as it could get for someone still in college. Our biggest seller?
Here it is ... (and it wasn't even close)
That same summer, AC/DC released what would become the 3rd best selling album of all time. (Thriller and Eagles Greatest Hits bounce back a forth between 1 & 2) Back in Black featured a new front man, Brian Johnson. His addition had been necessitated by the death of their previous front man, Bon Scott - who died in a parked car of acute alcohol poisoning (death by misadventure).
My first listen to an AC/DC album came a few years earlier. A friend of mine used to play it all the time. It featured a blues song, written by Scott and inspired by a letter rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young had received from a woman claiming he'd given her an STD.
So, here's a live version of
The Jack.
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Posted - Apr 09 2019 : 08:22:43
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Tommy Emmanuel, Deep River Blues
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Posted - Apr 23 2019 : 08:29:41
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busking
noun
the activity of playing music in the street or another public place for voluntary donations
For many musicians, including many blues artists, busking was how they got their start. Benjamin Franklin was a street performer and composed songs, prose and poetry and perform them in public along with selling printed copies of his work until his father intervened citing the stigma that street performers can attract. This experience helped form his views on free speech.
Abby the Spoon Lady (real name, Abby Roach) is a busker, radio personality and free speech activist who performs mostly in Asheville, NC with Chris Rodrigues. She taught herself how to play the spoons to help earn some money while she traveled the country, mostly hitch-hiking and hopping trains. In fact, she ended up in Asheville after hopping the wrong train.
Anyways, here's a couple of toons by Chris Rodrigues and Abby the Spoon Lady.
I Wake with the Blues from the porch of Abby's trailer.
Reuben's Train from the streets of Asheville.
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Posted - May 07 2019 : 10:24:51
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Elizabeth Cotten is gem. She was born into a musical family in Chapel Hill, NC and taught herself how to play guitar on a guitar that she got from Sears. Probably her most famous song is Freight Train. It has been recorded by many with one basically starting the skiffle craze in the UK during the 50's. Being left handed she played with the neck to her right; however, she retained the left handed stringing (meaning for her the lower strings were on the lower side of the neck).
She retired from playing guitar after 25 years, but returned to playing after a fortuitous event - she found a little girl lost in a department store and helped her find her mother. The family offered her a job as a maid. That family was also a musical family (the Seeger family, as in Pete Seeger's father). While listening to the family sing and play, she picked up a guitar and retaught herself how to play. This led to recording sessions and public performances culminating in a Grammy award at the age of 92.
Here she is playing Old Woman Keeps Tellin' Her Lies on Me.
And for an example of skiffle, Here's 14 year old Jimmy Page playing some skiffle on British TV back in 1958. (He's wanted to study germs when he grew up.)
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Posted - May 19 2019 : 08:26:23
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well thanks Aged , got to confess im not that big of a fan, its just when i gop to town sometimes i cant help but remember his treatment in this county, and i believe sometimes things need to be remembered to keep history from repeating itself, or something like that lol
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