Coolio!
|
I grew up in a town so small that you didn't lose your girlfriend, you lost your turn - Tim Williams, in concert
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Yeah, he blew the audience away. Very talented fellow, plays fiddle as well (he's classically trained but makes his living playing uke(!) ) and is very funny to boot.
hello friend,
a classic by wynonie "mr. blues" harris - quiet whiskey i love the way he stops the record so the label is straight up & down heres a rockabilly cat i just discovered. recorded a handful of songs around '56, or so. the stuff put out on the crown lp with ray smith is must own. (if you like rockabilly, anyway ) hello friend,
here's a fun performance of the sylvester weaver "guitar rag". some great stand up bass in this one, too. Hi all,
I posted this one over on facebook, but I think it's important to see and hear this one and to realize that anyone could do what Dave McKenna routinely did: improvise like a great horn player while simultaneously comping chords in the middle register and walking an improvised bass line like a great bass player (NOT a repeating boogie figure), switch tempos seamlessly, go into Stride, et al. I think he's the hardest swinging pianist ever, what an engine, and when I hear him I always feel as though the guitar is a kind of nice little toy. Anyway-- All best, Johnm This is bluesy, both in title and music, but it's a lot more besides. Hoagy Carmichael doing Hong Kong Blues with a spiffy little band, from the film To Have And Have Not.
I love how the 'oriental' tenor banjo, mandolin, fiddle and percussion parts meld with the jazz / ragtime / minor blues idioms, it covers a lot of ground. Somebody's tapping on a bottle at some point I just noticed. I've been obsessed with the song for the last week figuring it out for guitar, including some of the oriental licks and all the changes. It's actually an incredible piece when you start to dig into it and a real challenge to learn and big fun to play when you have it down. Only discovered this lot recently and I love it. It's very difficult to mix genres and actually make it work. I think they succeed very well.
For those forum members who enjoy gypsy jazz, I'd like to intoduce to you a young Finnish talent called Olli Soikkeli.
Cheers Pan
Tags: Dennis McGee John Hartford Freddy King Gatemouth Brown Ry Cooder Professor Longhair The Meters Scotty Anderson David Lindley drop G tuning jean-paul bataille YouTube Rab Noakes Jerry Reed John Miller Freshet Joe Pass Flaco Jimenez Roosevelt Sykes Danny Paisley Rick Ruskin Aziza Brahim Danny Barnes Lauren Premo Doyle Dykes
|