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: 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 …
In this column: guitarists who play left-handed: Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Doyle Bramhall, Otis Rush It is customary to place the thick strings on top. Albert has the thin strings at the top, which makes it easier for him to pull down the strings and thus raise the string half or whole tone. That gives …
In this column: Blackie (Eric Clapton), Greeny (Peter Green), Ex-sunburst (Rory Gallagher), 1956 Fender Stratocaster Black, 1959 Gibson Les Paul, 1961 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst, Lazarus (Joe Bonamassa) Of the hundreds of guitars that blues-rock legend Eric Clapton had his favorite was one that he had a hand in designing. In 1970 Eric was at Sho-Bud …
In this column: large Gibson hollow bodies (T-Bone Walker), Nancy (Roy Buchanan), Number One (Stevie Tay Vaughan), 1953 Fender Blackguard Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster ('63 body, '62 neck, '59 pickups) T-Bone Walker (Aaron Thibeaux Walker, Dallas Texas) played on different guitars in three eras: 1930-1950 on a Gibson ES-250, 1950-1970 on an ES-5 and from 1970 …
In this column: The Hoss (Muddy Waters), Gibson ES-335 Lefty (Otis Rush), Old Lady (Albert Collins), 1958 Fender Telecaster, Gibson ES-335, 1966 Fender Custom Telecaster Ash, Aron Burton Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) was a blues singer-songwriter and important in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". In …
https://youtu.be/PL0NA0SijLA Bluesman James Harman died on May 23, 2021 at the age of 74 from the effects of esophageal cancer. Harman performed as a blues harmonica player and singer. With his Icehouse Blues Band he played alongside Big Joe Turner, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, B. B. King, T-Bone Walker, Lowell …
In this column: Lucille (B.B.King), lucy (Albert King), Gibson ES-345 Cherry Red (Freddie King), Gibson Flying V, Gibson L-30, Gibson ES-355, Gibson Memphis 1964 ES-345 In 1949, BB King was playing a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. The hall was being heated by barrels which were half full of kerosene. A fight broke out, knocking …
In this column: hard rock (Bukka White), nine-string guitar (Big Joe Williams), kalamazoo Model KG-14 (Robert Johnson), resonader guitar, 1930s Stella parlour guitar The 1933 National Duolin resonator guitar "Hard Rock" of Booker T Washington "Bukka" White. Bukka used used this guitar as his main gigging and touring guitar for three decades. He was a founding …
On Thursday, January 17, 2013 at the age of 69 Chicago Bob Nelson passed away. Bob was a harmonica player and singer and known for Louisiana and Chicago blues styles. Bob was named "Chicago" because every blues venue in the Windy City where Muddy Waters played, Robert Lee (Bob) was also featured. Muddy came up …
Gene Taylor (†68) passed away yesterday, February 20, 2021. A humble and excellent musician. He mastered the blues piano like no other. On a Saturday afternoon prior to a performance in Music Café 't Keerpunt (Netherlands), he played five songs on the album Blues Rhythm' n Love (Jon Meyerjon). He had prepared well and written …
