Topic: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips

[Rivers]

Really good, enjoyed that a lot. So did the birds obviously, what a beautiful setting for a country blues video. Great skills in the hammer-on / pull-off department and general command of the fret board enabling him to play what he hears in his head. Are there a lot of these talented guys in Poland?

[Prof Scratchy]

[Parlor Picker]

Fuji from Japan sings blues in Japanese and plays a mean resophonic slide guitar. The pocket trumpet/tuned gas main and other sundry wind instruments come courtesy of Paul Shearsmith from Yorkshire.

I like the album title mentioned here. I also have a CD by them called "We pray the brues" - Edit or "We Pray the Brooze" as Stuart quite rightly states below. (Thanks Stuart, I thought it looked odd, but failed to go downstairs and check the CD artwork.)

[Stuart]

Another spelling correction--It's "We Pray The Brooze." I've heard it and they're not bad. As an aside, back in the 70's I attended a couple of Tex Logan's summer parties. One year the Bluegrass 45 were there. They were so good they were scary. However, in a world of Martins and Gibsons, they seemed content to play Yamahas and Arias, IIRC.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fujii

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bluegrass-45-mn0000067607

[daddystovepipe]

love the drive of this french guitarist (he made the guitar he's playing)

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Mr. OMuck posted this recently on facebook.  Arthur Crudup is sort of semi-forgotten by present-day aficionados, maybe because he wasn't a flashy player.  What a singer, though, and what beautiful time!  I had never noticed before that he played this out of cross-note tuning.  Enjoy.
All best,
Johnm

[Bunker Hill]

Hi all,
Mr. OMuck posted this recently on facebook.  Arthur Crudup is sort of semi-forgotten by present-day aficionados, maybe because he wasn't a flashy player.  What a singer, though, and what beautiful time!  I had never noticed before that he played this out of cross-note tuning.  Enjoy.
All best,
Johnm

Here's a little Crudup reading matter from a 2006 topic

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=2273.msg17411;topicseen#msg17411

[lindy]

I love that Crudup clip, I've watched it many times. It reminds me some something Jerry Ricks said in Port Townsend many years ago: "Simplicity is the absence of clutter." Easy to say, a real challenge to incorporate into my playing.

Here are two more examples of Mississippi simplicity, from Robert Belfour, who we will have the pleasure of spending time with this summer at the workshop. There are already a few Belfour clips on this thread, but these look professionally produced, a good chance to watch what he's doing if you can't come join us in person this summer:

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's a really nice one from Jim Jackson--great outro!
All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Here's another nice one from Jim Jackson.  Sort of surprising to hear him in D.
All best,
Johnm

[lindy]

Reading the thread on Bengt Olsson led me to this one, another example of exquisite simplicity--he's not doing much at all, but what a great sense of time! 



edited to add: Hmmm, just listened to it a second time, and there's more stuff going on than I heard the first, but he's still keeping it basic . . .

[Johnm]

Thanks very much for posting that, Lindy, that is really beautiful!  I've never heard of Lincoln Jackson before, but that is the closest I've heard in terms of ideas and execution to Henry Townsend's early cross-note pieces from someone who was not imitating Henry.  In fact, Jackson hits a couple of sonorities I haven't heard anyone else play in cross-note.  Jackson had a great ear and imagination.  That's terrific.
All best,
Johnm

[lindy]

Here's one from Hacksaw Harney that I hadn't seen/heard before. If this is a repeat posting, let me know and I'll delete it.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's another from Jim Jackson.
All best,
Johnm

[Pan]

Walter Davis playing a minor blues:



Cheers

Pan