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Post by slidingwolf on May 3, 2020 12:13:01 GMT
Made the pilgrimage to New Orleans in 2018, for the jazz festival. And there they were, playing in the street, along with other bands of similar ability. Wonderful stuff.
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Post by slidingwolf on Feb 29, 2020 13:28:08 GMT
An act I saw recently talked a lot about how he played 'authentic' delta blues but performed almost exclusively what I'd consider piedmont material - steady alternating bass under a melody (Mississippi John Hurt and Rev Gary Davis type stuff). Whereas I tend to associate delta with repeated bass notes and sudden jump in rhythm (in the mould of Charlie Patton or Robert Johnson). I'm just curious what you see as the differences between the two styles? Well, certainly MJH came from the Delta, but like you, I would not describe his style as typical of the region. I had the good fortune to spend some time with John Cephas and Phil Wiggins. They described themselves as "playing in the Piedmont style," and proud to keep that tradition going. So there is/was something in the definitions as far as they were/are concerned. But it's only fairly broad categories as far as I can make out and no hard and fast rules. At the time, John Cephas was teaching and performing Skip James songs - not your classic Piedmont for sure. To me, the blues is like an enormouse gene pool of ideas which players dipped into and took what they wanted, from wherever they wanted. I don't think any of them were ever bothered to much by some definition. Part of the facination. Thanks for posting. Interesting subject.
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Post by slidingwolf on Feb 4, 2020 13:59:12 GMT
Not the most mindblowingly technical adept slide playing, but it's an essential part of a fantastic song. Nice! Thanks for posting. Haven't thought about Duster Bennett for a long time.
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Post by slidingwolf on Feb 2, 2020 23:13:26 GMT
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 21, 2020 20:44:37 GMT
Love these Playing for Change videos:
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 18, 2020 15:55:34 GMT
Not sure if this should go here or not, so Mods feel free to remove. Not even all acoustic but this is facinating:
Warning: not one for the lovers of the fiddly folkie stuff.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 17, 2020 16:20:04 GMT
Not very well known, but well worth a listen
You really don't have to do much if you've got conviction and know how to put it across.
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Joni
Jan 17, 2020 15:14:39 GMT
Post by slidingwolf on Jan 17, 2020 15:14:39 GMT
I don’t believe that for the moment. I suspect he simply picked out a tuning because it fitted the mood. Nor do I believe Joni tunes to the ocean. Nice stories though. I'm sure Joni and Ry will be devastated to hear you say that.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 17, 2020 15:08:35 GMT
Have we discovered this? It's Tom Waits from the album of Willie Johnson songs, God Don't Never Change. The slide guitar is sampled from a Smithsonian Folkways track called East Texas Rag, by Smith Casey. I love it.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 16, 2020 12:54:53 GMT
And let's add some Guy Davis. Very few people take on Blind Lemon, far tougher than the popular Robert J. but I really like this version on 12 string.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 16, 2020 12:48:10 GMT
So let's have some more.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 16, 2020 12:46:27 GMT
Love this guy's playing. Real authentic feel.
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Joni
Jan 15, 2020 18:54:30 GMT
Post by slidingwolf on Jan 15, 2020 18:54:30 GMT
But seriously folks, how wonderful it must be to have the ability to take a subject like that and write something so beautiful, poigniant and original, let alone work out a tuning that reflects the environment. Some, a very few, are just on a different level.
Ry Cooder, btw, put his guitar in tune with the dessert to compose Paris, Texas.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 15, 2020 17:20:36 GMT
I have to confess Joni and I have been having a mad, passionate affaire for years. It's just that nobody ever bothered to tell her.....
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Post by slidingwolf on Sept 20, 2019 16:31:57 GMT
What slidingwolf said. I’ve tried singing Walkin Blues with a Glasgow accent and it don’t work.
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