Topic: Losin' Kind Blues

[Mr.OMuck]

A tale of woe from real life...goddamnit

[sustaireblues]

Sorry to hear it Mr.OMuck, but rest assured we'll listen to your hard times, anytime!
We can relate.

Very well done, by the way!

[CF]

That was real good, Phil. What a difference between someone trying to play a blues & someone playing the blues.

[Mr.OMuck]

Thanks guys

[Pan]

What they said.

Pan

[daddystovepipe]

yes indeed.

[uncle bud]

Done good there, Mr. OMuck.

[Mr.OMuck]

Thanks Pan, Carl & Andrew, I appreciate your good words.

[Johnm]

A strong job, Phil, and kudos for original lyrics that ring.
All best,
Johnm

[Mr.OMuck]

Thanks John

[RobBob]

Am I hearing a Son House influence in that fine guitar playing?

[Mr.OMuck]

Ya gotchuz Son House, Tommy McClennan, Big Joe Williams (listenin' to him a lot these days) Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Blind Boy Fuller, Barbecue Bob anything that came to hand at the moment.


And Thanks.

[Rivers]

Good one Phil, actually going on great, is that a true story? If so, dang it all.

[Mr.OMuck]

Yeah, unfortunately its from the heart. Its a good reminder for me as to why the thematic material of the Blues is so persistent. We (I) get ourselves involved with someone, full of blind courage, recklessness and idiot hope, and whether its a 25 year marriage or a 6 month affair, it hurts like hell when its over. The other side of the coin is that writing and singing that song REALLY helped me feel better! What strange hoodoo is THAT? But its absolutely true that my emergence from the pit of despair started to happen as a result of doing that song, another indicator of why the subject and this music is so prevalent.
By the way as outlined in most Blues of this type, my artist's life with its attending lack of MONEY is usually the reason things fall apart. "Now women and Money they go hand in hand...etc. etc and so forth...some things never change.
I Blame Capitalism!

[Rivers]

I just quit my job, last day is tomorrow, I think I'll become an artist!

Cheryl says I can take a month off. Then it's "back to work, Buster..."

[Mr.OMuck]

There ya go!

[Rivers]

I might try and drag out my sabbatical a bit longer than a month. I need to get my brain together and get in shape, go skiing after I finally haul the last truckload to Colorado on Jan 31st. Cheryl's working, has been making more than me for some time now. I tend to work longer for the same outfit (been working in the States for the same company since we got here in 2005), Cheryl changes jobs every year or less and takes a break in between. I'm just ready to cash-in my accumulated karma break credits.

[Mr.OMuck]

Well as certain tavern novelty signs say....."Work is the Curse of the Drinking Class!"

[Rivers]

Or as a certain Amish farmer said to me recently, after I had thanked him for taking time off farm work to show us around his farm, "Oh, no problem. It'll still be there waitin' for me when I go back to it. Ain't never had work run away from me yet".