So you want to learn how to play a guitar? Well check out Mr. Furry Lewis, a master of the blues slide guitar. Oh and don't forget to talk to your guitar. When it starts talking back to you, then you know you are there.
One of my jobs here at SqueezeMyLemon (I'd like to think) is turning the young on to the blues. And there are a few bluesmen who have slipped through the cracks. There are so many great blues musicians, and so little time. I feel that some blues musicians do not get the respect that they deserve.
One such bluesman is Freddie King (aka Freddy King).
Ok gather around children, gather around. We are fixin to listen to some blues music (when I say "fixin" I don't mean like fixin a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which is a different meaning of that verb all together. I mean getting ready to).
And if you do not consider yourself to be one of the children, then go and get a child and let them listen to this. They might want to learn how to play a guitar after listening and watching these videos. Because the late great Mr. King could play the "expletive deleted" out of a guitar. He was an excellent singer and composer too. Just an over-all great bluesman.
And If you yourself aspire to play the blues you might want to take notes on these. This is the way they used to do it back when Freddie King was on the scene.
The below video is just too delightful for words really, note the bongo player. Can't say I've ever seen a bongo player in a blues band before. But hey, he seems to be grooving.
And as for the question, "Have you ever loved a woman?"
I have to admit that I have and still do, "so much that it is a shame and a sin."
Have you ever loved a Woman
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Aint Nobody´s Business
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Freddie King: Ain`t No Sunshine When She`s Gone.
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Hide Away
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Boogie Funk
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Freddie King
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San Ho Zay
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I'm Tore Down
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The above video all come off (I believe) the below DVDs
Here is a little something for my old friend mr anchovy and my new friend stagg.
This video is of Buddy Guy playing "Look What All You've Got," "Crawlin' Kingsnake," and "Damn Right I've Got The Blues."
I love the pedimont blues. Because it is just simple and sweet blues music. Mrs. Etta Baker, a great peidmont blues player has passed to the other side. If I were a better writer I would write something more fitting to remember this gentle soul by. A woman who played the blues with such passion and grace.
Due to my failings, instead I think it might be better to give links where you can go and possibly down load some of Mrs. Baker’s music if you have never heard her. I think her music says it better than I ever could.
MP3s
Links to Etta Baker mp3s
"Never Let Your Deal Go Down" Mp3
"One-Dime Blues" Mp3
Articles
Etta Baker @ Fitzgerald’s Journal.
Etta Baker - Fingerpicking the Piedmont Blues
Etta Baker @ wikipedia
Etta Baker, Legend of Piedmont Blues NPR
Blues guitarist Etta Baker dies at 93
One of the main reasons that I learned to play the harmonica was because of Sonny Terry. I actually became aware of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee via Sonny Terry's music which I listened to first. But then after I bought a couple of their CDs I learned to love Brownie McGee too. I really enjoy his performance in the video below.
He may well be the single most influential artist in the modern blues. Certainly, in light of his prodigious activities in and on behalf of the magnificent, impassioned, urgent and powerful music to which he has contributed so significantly over the years, he must be considered on of the major figures of the postwar blues.
Here is a twofer of R.L. Burnside
The way Bukka White says, "You got to give me a chance to get all my tools out now, what'cha reckon." and then just goes into this song, makes me laugh. I guess you would have to have grown up around people who talk like that to understand.
And then there is that beautiful National Steel Guitar, being played on his lap. You got to love it.
