Topic: Blues everywhere I go

[Richard]

Fushed with success (as the plumber said) from my gala EBA performance, I have done a generic take on this CBW tune which dj and I got to the bottom of earlier.
Our hard work a has paid off in that I can more or less ad lib in a generic CBW style (hows that for grammar!) whilst the key is bit high for singing, it suits the guitar part.

Note the holes in the shirt, it's 'cause I spent all the money on that luvly guitar 

   

[ericm]

Note the holes in the shirt, it's 'cause I spent all the money on that luvly guitar 

I can also see holes in the guitar !!! 

[Norfolk Slim]

Nice job.

What immediately stands out to me Richard, is the pulse.

I think you've said previously how difficult it is to play this sort of stuff without a backup guitar, but you've really managed to get enough rhythm between the licks to hold it together tightly here.

[blueshome]

Nice. Guitar is nailed and the vocal is in tune.

His stuff in C is so hard to sing. How does it come out in Bb? Alternatively, go to D tuning and play around to find a nice singing key, the guitar part is not everything.

[dj]

Richard, you have developed a guitar style that is recognizably and uniquely yours, but also recognizably based on the playing of Casey Bill Weldon.  That's really good.

You need a shirt with palm trees to go with the palm trees on your guitar!    

[Richard]

Thanks all, I'm not out to garner accolades and really welcome constructive crits. One of the aims in posting here is to make me move on and hopefully improve.

dj, an interesting comment about developing a style for instrument, it is as you now know not the easiest to go solo on, I suppose subconsciously the rhythm side comes more from the early Oscar Woods which seemd to be a sort of finger picky rhythm and certainly our work on CB had provided the fills. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet (if only) but I was able to do that post in one take off the cuff, something which really pleased me.