In this column: King Biscuit Time, KFFA Helena radio station, King Biscuit Flour, King Biscuit Stomp, King Biscuit Boys, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williams, Big Walter Horton Well good evening, everybody, people tell me, how do you do? Good evening, everybody, peoples tell me, how do you do? We the King Biscuit Boys, we …
In this column: funny caper, capers, funny caper blues, slick caper blues, Memphis Willie B., Robben Ford, hookworm blues, hookworm, Blind Blake, rounder, Memphis Rounder Blues, Frank Stokes, Emmett Murray All your funny caper, little girl, is gonna get you a trick someday All your funny caper, little girl, is gonna get you a trick …
In this column: Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee Blues, Bob Lee Junior, Bob Lee Junior Blues, Natchez, Mississippi, Salty Dog Blues, Black Pony Blues, foxtrot and pace, gait, Charlie, Drayman Blues, peaches and don't shake my tree, potatoes and don't dig so deep, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Jug Band, Bo Carter, Arthur Crudup, T-Bone walker, Clifford Gibson
In this column: Gospel, Blues, Denomination Blues, Getting the blues, Washington Phillips, Rosetta Tharpe, Ry Cooder, Big Bill Broonzy, Hans Theessink and Wilson Blount The blues were generated in the cotton fields, on the levees, or on the front porch of a people who has born unspeakable burdens of privation and destitution. Yet the …
In this column: Amen Corner, Gin House Blues, Alabama March, Lion's den, God locked their jaw, Swing low sweet chariot, Papa Charlie Jackson, J.B.Lenoir (photo), Levester "Big Lucky" Carter, Wallace Willis, Amen Corner (band), Cuby and The Blizzards, Nina Simone. ... There’s a preacher in the pulpit, Bible in his hand And the sister’s …
In this column: Judgement day, Twelve gates to the city (three in the east, three west, three south and three south), When the saints go marching in, Beulah Land, Outshine the sun, Hand writing on the wall, Snooky Pryor, Blind Boy Fuller, Barbecue Bob, Mavis Staples ... What you gonna do on judgement day The …
Sax player Steve Lacy transcribed Thelonious Monk's primer of do's and don'ts for club musicians. He saw them in spiral-bound notebook Thelonious used for notes.
In this column: websites which offer a road map to the history of American folk, roots, blues music, vernacular-shellac, Weenie Campbell, Bill Boslaugh, Harry Smith, Curt in Australia, discogs In this blog Curt in Australia uses Harry Smith's Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore American folk music and traditions. He’ ll use texts, images, …
Subjects: documentaries about the story of the blues, famous artists, styles, cities like Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans, American blues festivals and blues festival tour in Europe. Record Row, an avenue in Chicago lined with independent record companies. A remastered edition of a 1966 CBS TV Festival series featuring - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland …
In this column: the songs - St. James Infirmary, Crapshooters Blues, Pneumonia Blues, clothing and more - straight-lace shoes, box-back coat, Stetson hat (homburg), standing pat, double breasted, pallbearers, 'dig my grave with the ace of spades', bootleggers, buggy riders, coupla tens, hoodoo wagon, The Charleston, black (the wearing of...), BVD's, Louis Armstrong, Blind Willie …
In this column: hand signals and keywords for tempo and progressions In my career as a guitarist I have accompanied a lot of blues musicians/artists and there is never room to practice the songs together. Usually we prepare a set list before the concert or the artist calls out the songs while playing. We use …
In this column: every day i have the blues, Pinetop and Milton Sparks, Memphis Slim, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Albert King, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Jack Pearson with Josh Smith & Kirk Fletcher, Robert J. Lockwood, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Burns, Matt Schofield & Henrik Freischlader, Luther Allison with Otis Rush & …
In this column: different ways to hold the slide, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Walsh, Derek Trucks, Muddy Waters, Sonny Landreth, Duane Allman, Jerry Douglas, Robert Randolph, Elmore James, J.B. Hutto, Rory Gallagher, Lil'Ed, Keb Mo, John Hiatt, videos of all, 2 lessons from Walsh The sleeve slide is held in three different ways: with the little …
In this column: slides, all kinds of Dunlop slides, bottleneck, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, W.C.Handy, CeDell Davis, Vox Wah, my own experience Slides are objects that allow the guitarist to create a violin-like tone. He/she slides the object over the snare and makes a note just above the fret. Different objects are used …
In this column: guitarists which use a capo, Albert Collins, Eddie Jones, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Keith Wyatt, The Icebreakers To make chords easier To match your voice To change keys (and to be able to play the same chord grips In stead of tuning down To brighten the tone of the guitar To give the …
