Topic: What are we listening to now?

[eric]

Most folks here are pretty serious about music, and I appreciate what they post on this topic. Just my two cents.

[Stuart]

Yeah, imagine stumbling onto something that you really like, but then saying to yourself, "This isn't Country Blues, so I shouldn't listen to this, never mind enjoy it." And then turning it off. A descent into madness, IMHO.

[eric]

[Devils Son Inlaw]

This CD this morning, Buddy Boy and William Harris.

[Rivers]

Currently still working on improvisation. Electric initially but it bleeds back naturally into acoustic, as one does one's scales.and modes.

Presently hooked onto an early Freddy King jag, in particular absorbing his immaculate phrasing which is pretty much how I would like to be remembered on an electric guitar. What a  great player and singer he was. Go for the early recordings initially.

All the best players do their homework, practice scales and study theory in general. Very few of the multitude reading this live in the MS Delta, c.1928. If we want to express ourselves as artists we eventually have to move ourselves outwards.

I figure it's not that you're suddenly going to forget how to fingerpick country blues if you suddenly nail a good electric blues lead with a plectrum, or any other genre kind of lead break. That concern is not a concern, fingerpicking country blues is like riding a bicycle, once you've got it you never lose it.

That's where I'm at right now. I apologize, I is what I is.

[Stuart]

I is what I is.

cogito, ergo sum "I think, therefore I am" --René Descartes

“I Feel, Therefore I Am” --Antonio Damasio

"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam" --Popeye

I follow Popeye

[Rivers]

Nice correlations there Stuart

[Johnm]

Hi all,
First two tunes are from the late Jazz pianist/composer/arranger, Clare Fischer. First "Inquietacao", in his re-harmonization then his own tune, "Morning":





Then from Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones, Part 1":



All best,
Johnm

[David Kaatz]

Man, I'm always listening to something. Yesterday, it was a lot of Joe Bussard's Fonotone records from Dust to Digital. Today, it's the Beat TV Show. If you aren't familiar, most if not all episodes are available on YouTube. There's a lot of lip sync-ing, but a lot of live performances as well. This episode features Freddie King and Joe Simon.

[blueshome]

[Slack]

Listening to the new Super Deluxe release of Revolver - which may be my favorite Beatles album.  Slate did a nice job of putting the album in context.  I love listening to the outtakes, or alternate takes, or just goofing around takes.

https://slate.com/culture/2022/10/beatles-revolver-2022-super-deluxe-reissue-stax-motown.html

[Johnm]

Hi Slack,
I always loved that song, "For No One" on Revolver. And "She Said", if that one is on there.

[Stuart]

Hi Slack:

Great record--part of the sound track of my high school years. A fool's paradise...

Like John, I like those two cuts--along with all the rest.

[Slack]

Johnm and Stuart,

Yes, high school sound track for many of us!  Yep Johnm it's on there - it is a great transitional album ... from old style performance songs to new style studio songs.  I'm just amazed by the creativity -- how an acoustic sketch of a song, morphs into something completely unexpected. 

[banjochris]

I really want to get that new "Revolver" – it has always amazed me, coming off of "Rubber Soul," that "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first number recorded for that album!
Chris