It was just before I went into the army about 40, 42 I think, I heard of a guy called T-Bone Walker and that was the first electric guitar I'd ever heard... and I went crazy, I went completely nutty... I think that he had the clearest touch of anybody I'd ever heard on guitar then - B.B King on T-Bone Walker, from Giles Oakley's The Devil's Music, BBC
Hi all, I will be on the faculty at Port Townsend at the summer session in 2019 after a number of years not teaching there. As a result of teaching at Port Townsend, I will not be at Euro Blues Week in 2019. I hope to see some old friends at Port Townsend, as well as meeting new ones and meeting many of the teaching staff for the first time. All best, Johnm
I will also be on the faculty -- I'll be teaching blues fiddle (Coleman Aiken will also teach blues fiddle) and I'm also going to be doing a band lab class with Jim Kweskin! We co-taught at another camp last year and it was great fun.
Also excited to see that Cedric Watson will be teaching blues accordion. He is a brilliant musician, a great Creole fiddler as well as a wonderful accordion player.
Tell your fiddling friends to sign up, this is going to be an extra-good year for fiddles at Blues Week!
I'm looking forward it. If you haven't attended, it's a lot of fun with like minded folks, great musicians and teachers. Hope to see some fellow Weenies there.
I really enjoyed seeing familiar old folks - and a plethora of young folks - with guitars and associated stringed instruments at PT this year! It was a great time on all fronts - even arising early for the timely soul-searching course made sense.
As usual, I had to depart early, but still got to stay for ribs - worth it!
2019 was Jerron's last year as Artistic Director; this is a note about our 2020 AD: