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Country Blues => Performance Corner => Topic started by: LoneWolf on December 14, 2006, 12:06:11 PM
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Hi, this is a great forum, tomorrow I should start posting here on a regular basis.
Take a listen to some of my performances if have time..
www.soundclick.com/roigeyari
Cheers!
Roi.
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Did somebody check it out..?
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Hi Mike, thanks for listening. Yeah, I'm 18 and a half years old, mentally I'm about 4 years old though...
I listened to all of your tunes on Soundclick. Your Lemon Jefferson song is incredible.
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Hey Wolf:
I listend to five of your tunes, especially your Oscar Woods Stuff (a fav of mine).
For "Don't Sell It" that rhythmic bounce tha OW gives the tune could maybe use a little emphasis, but other wise It's v. well done. You've chosen to alter the signature lick (which is cool), poss. it could be developed a little more strongly.
For "Kindhearted Woman", you've added some great musical ideas, very interesting, very inventive. Why not add some original words, make it totally original and have a total showstopper. Terrific.
BTW, my favorite vocal on all the tunes I listened to was on "Lone Wolf". I like your natural voice. Rather than sounding like a girl (whatever that means), I thought you were more vocally expressive.
Great tunes, I was really impressed.
Alex
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Very nice, Roy. Your playing and voice capture these songs very nicely, indeed. I like your choice of songs. Keep on pickin! :)
Brian
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Hey thank you so much guys!!
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Hey everybody...
If you have time, check out my new electric recordings. Both of them are originals.
"Wind on my Face" - instrumental with fast sliding.
"You Better Treat Me Right" - 12 bar blues that I wrote.
Let me know what you think. Happy Xmas.
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Hey Mike, thanks. Sorry, I forgot to put the link to my soundclick..
www.soundclick.com/roigeyari
The second song is there too.
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Please let me know what you think about my performance of "Rolling Stone".
Go here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=547497
It's one of the first songs on the list. I'll appreciate ANY comment.
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Am I that bad?
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I recorded two songs today (I'm about to record more, I think), one of them is Gary Davis' "Lord, I Looked Down the Road", and another one is something that I wrote called "A Heart Made of Stone".
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=547497
Let me know what you think.
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Hi LoneWolf,
Sounding good. Are you playing both guitar parts? Nice jazzy tinges on occasion to the leads.
I think posting this on a Sunday at a time when most people in North America are dealing with supper and most of the UK/Euro weenies are either in bed or getting thrown out of the pub affects response time. Patience! ;D
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Hi Uncle Bud.
I have patience, it's just that this thread had more than 50 views and not a single comment, so I thought this recording is sadly bad.
Thank you for the comment, glad you liked it. My friend played back up guitar.
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Hey Wolf:
Since I can hardly hold a flatpick, I'm hardly one to be commenting on a flatpicked tune.
I like it. three comments.
1) The flat picked runs tend to have all the notes at even time spacings. If you "swung" the note spacings a bit it would add some interest (I've been listening to a lot of Frank Stokes lately, that guy knew how to swing). As someone once said, music is as much about the gaps as it is about the notes.
2) Don't affect your voice so much. I like your natural voice!
3) Geez, keep it up, your great.
Alex
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Hi Alex!!
Although I do play with a flatpick on rare occasions, I played this one with bare fingers.
You're right about the gaps.
I swear to god that since I started smoking, this is my voice:) Can't help it... Also, my voice was kinda hoarse in this session and I tried to holler, and this is what happened I guess.
Thank you so much!!! Check out my other post in the Porch. The one with the Gary Davis tune.
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Nobody? :(
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Hey Roi,
Personally, I haven't had a chance to listen to any new ones, but if they're anything like what you've posted so far, what's there to say but, "Good work.'
Perhaps you don't have a good understanding of what the Back Porch is all about. Generally it was set up so that folks could post something that they were working on, whether trying to work out a Patton tune or create one's own tune. The idea was to post work in process, ask for some tips or suggestions of what to work on or what direction to go in. Of course, everyone has their level of comfort in how rough a take they are willing to post, but you get what I'm saying. Most folks will post a song once in a while, and maybe get some feedback that will help them progress.
Now you seem to be a pretty accomplished player, with your own soundclick page and all, eh? And you made quite a few posts of relatively polished material. As I said, all folks can do is pat you on the back and tell you to keep doin' what you're doin'. So if you post a couple of songs a week, don't be surprised if folks with a lot more than country blues on their hands don't have time to give you that pat every week.
Your'e a good player and you've got a lot of years to develop your craft and art. Your exuberance is great, too. Just bear in mind that many of us are middle-aged and just hopin' to get good enough to play for friends before the arthritis takes that ability away from us.
Hope you hear what I'm saying in the right way. And, as I said, "Keep doin' what you're doin'." You got good chops.
Oh, one other thing. Stop smoking cigarettes. Be the individual in your crowd who doesn't get hooked. At my age I've seen too many friends die of lung cancer and, perhaps worse, the slow death of emphysema. Let your voice develop on it's own, with practice you can make any voice you want be your own, gravel bottom, falsetto (no, you don't have to have your 'nads cut off), or a shouter. Patience and hard practice, just like the guitar.
BTW, you haven't posted responses in any of my Back Porch threads. They're all still there, mine and everyone else's.
All for now.
John C.
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Hi John. I appreciate you comment, and thank you for not being angry with me when I'm literally begging for comments.
Your statement that I don't comment other people's posts on the porch is not true though. It's true that I don't do it a lot, because I'm a begginer on the guitar and most of the time I don't have anything to say except "I like it" and "Keep it up"...
And since I'm just begining my blues road, nothing is more important to me than comments, suggestion and critique. Compliments are always the best thing, but sometimes I feel like people compliment me because I'm a good player for the time I play, instead of giving me suggestion on how to become a decent, full-time bluesman.
I'm 18 years old and I need those things.
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=4910420
Let me know if it sounds good.
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The intro and tempo sound great... you're not hitting the high g note( but MINE)..and you need to hit the c note( 2nd string first fret) at the end of the verse..good thumb work, however..take care.. Richd
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Great! But I think anyone who can play in Mississippi John Hurt's style is good!
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The piedmont style is pretty new to me... Here are two recordings (since it's Sunday - gospel).
"What a Beautiful City" (Sonny Terry/Blind Boy Fuller/Brownie McGhee):
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=4967105
Sing Of Judgment (Kid Prince Moore):
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=4966316
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Hi Roi,
I like what you're doing with the guitar on Sign Of Judgement. Heck, I might even steal a bit of it. ;D I do think that the feeling of the song would come through better if you slowed it down a bit.
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Hi dj, thanks!!! Are you familiar with Kid Prince Moore's version?
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"Lord I'm Discouraged"
You can download it here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5031716
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Good stuff as always, Roi...
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5197820
You can download it from there, or listen without downloading... Please let me know what you think.
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Nice song Roy, great picking. For your age you are already an accomplished musician.
The only thing that needs improving are the vocals. Although you voice has great potential you don't use it yet optimally. In this song the vocals are too even and lacking dynamics, it sounds a bit like you're not fully aware of what you're exactly singing about. I think you'll understand this better when you'll be older so you shouldn't worry too much about it ;) Just keep pickin', playing, creating and you'll get there.
By the way, at 19 I didn't sound nearly half as good as you.
Carl
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Hi Carl, thanks!
My vocal abilities, unlike yours, are very very VERY (very) very (veryX100) VERY limited.
The best I can do is to hit as many "right" notes as I can and give it a very lazy feeling, which I actaully like a lot when it comes to someone like Lil Son Jackson. I don't know any way to work on my voice other than smoking 10 cigarrets a day, this is a real problem. I'm no singer AT ALL.
BTW, you can notice that after the solo break I went back to the first verse and then finished the song. I actually wrote another verse that was supposed to come after the guitar solo, but I completely forgot it in the middle of the recording and just improvised something...
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Here's my attempt at this incredible song
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5215977
Thanks to our forum member "dj" for the help with the lyrics!
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Hi Roi, how are you? Very difficult song to sing I believe as Patton is one of the best singers IMO and to cover his singing is impossible... But I heard his influence on your guitar on a song you posted a few days ago which was very good.
Even though as always I liked your version.
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Roi,
I liked your singing on that one.
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Hey Roi, your phone doesn't answer...
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=4543130
Blind Willie would have killed me if he heard it, but hopefully you'll like it...
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Here's me playing the over-covered song:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5263692
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Its certainly overcovered- and worse still, over jammed at many events. I hate this song...
BUT!!!!
What a great version- fresh, funky and very enjoyable indeed- nice one. A real Honeyboy / Belfour / Hopkins type feel to it. You make a lot out of a simple structure and song. :D
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Hey Wolf:
I like this song, and your version is great. Still a little bit sloppy, you might benefit with one gauge thicker strings on the guitar, they sound a bit slack.
One other point, I couldn't make out some of the words in parts. It my not be necessary to slur your vocal delivery quite so much.
But I've listend to it three times so far, so I like it. And your single string work in a solo acoustic format is top hole.
Goin' for four,
Alex
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That's some cool downhome blues, Roy! 8)
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Thanks guys! Much appreciated. Thanks Alex for the suggestions!
By the way, a second after I finished that recording, one of the strings broke. I was lucky.
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Here's my version of this traditional song:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5374194
Sorry about the quality..
"Don't care how long you're gone, how long you stay
Good kind treatment will bring you home one day
Someday Baby, you ain't gonna worry poor me anymore"
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5359978
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Nice version Roy, like the electric, Lemon would have played one too if he were alive ;)
Your vocals are improving but you should try to use a bit more dynamics like : Jack of dIIIamonds is a hAAArd card to play, well, you kinda know what I mean.
Cheers,
Carl
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Thank you sir!
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I'll add another recording to the "Roll and Tumble without slide" list:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5374392
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Nice job!
Mike
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I think this might be the best thing I've heard you do. Love it!
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Thanks guys!
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Come Back Baby:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5397970
Why Don't You Rattle For Me:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5397982
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Here's a longer, slower and sloppier version of this incredible song:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5412283
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"Blues ain't nothing but dance music" - RL Burnside
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5485102
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5485508
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Here's my primitive version of this brilliant song:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5492518
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Looks like you have to sign up to Soundclick to listen, I'm afraid I can't cope with joining yet "another" net thingy.... why don't you just post a cut-down to size mp3 here ???
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Try it here:
www.myspace.com/roimorganfield
Thanks for trying!
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5504438
Enjoy!
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Great!
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Thanks Jim!
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Roi, I've had your song stuck in my head for a couple of hours.. that's a really good tune. And I'm definitely hearing your voice getting stronger as time goes by. These last couple of yours -specifically this one and "Jack o' Diamonds" are just fantastic.
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Thanks man, that's too kind of you. I've always liked what you do, LOVE the banjo tunes.
Have I told you how similar your voice is to Willie Brown's voice? It's kinda scary actually.
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Yes, you've said that before, and that means a lot to me. Whenever I play out the comparison I usually get is "wow, you sound just like Tom Waits" and I'm like "no, I don't!" So to have an educated opinion comparing me to Willie Brown is just great.. lol..
As for the banjo, I meant to record some of that this week, but I ran out of time. I'll try to get some of that up sooner rather than later..
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Here's my version:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=547497&songID=5553883
Enjoy!