December 30, 2023

Billy Joel. "Summer, Highland Falls". The piano isn't my favorite axe, but this is a startlingly great riff.

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December 28, 2023

A couple men we recently lost who were amazing strummers. Justin Townes Earl and Wilco Johnson

Justin had a 3 pound engineer's hammer for a right thumb
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He wrote songs too, if I didn't know better, I would've thought this was a 19th century spiritual
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Wilco Johnson never hit in North America, closest he came was when he was the guitarist for Ian Drury and the Blockheads. I'n not gonna include any Ian Drury though.

His strumming patterns were nuts - Tight and frantic at the same time. FYI, Wilko never played with another guitarist, it's all him
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"I can't speak to my musical evolution, I mean I learned to do it when I was around 18 and that's it"

Here's a good look at what's going on, with a great solo performance of "Going Back Home"
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December 20, 2023

A few random songs on a Tuesday. Starting with JTE

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Buffalo Nichols, sounding menacing AF, while singing things like "If it were up to me, I would fill my whole world with love"
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Patsy Cline, "Imagine That"
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Closing with Gangstagrass
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December 18, 2023

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee were freaking amazing.

This song was one of my top 10 plays this past year
 

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Cool to see 'em live and in color
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Let's revisit that session, shall we?
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Here's they are appearing on Pete Seeger's TV show with Pete playing that big ass baritone banjo tryna help out.
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December 18, 2023

Buffalo Nichols "The Fatalist Blues" - So dangerous sounding.

Never expected to hear "If I had my way, I'd fill my whole life with love" sound as menacing as it does here.

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December 16, 2023

Flying home from Puerto Rico. Delta has free wifi.

Not good WiFi mind you, but free is cool.

And since I'm not a movie guy, I figure I'll put together a DUMA post .

Today's theme is another of the things I love.

Whiskey. Or alternatively whisky.

Selwyn Birchwood has a story.

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One of the very best, Robin Trower laid down this monstrous riff 50+ years ago.
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Anthony Gomes has questionable taste in brown liquor., but impeccable riff-ability
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Willie Nelson's classic to close this out
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December 15, 2023

Meet Me In The City. Junior Kimbrough's masterpiece is being covered more and more every year.

I mean, it ain't Sweet Home Chicago yet, but it's catching up...

Here's the original

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1st time I heard it, The Black Keys were covering it on the album Chulahoma. Chulahoma is Junior's hometown BTW.

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Some young kids from the hill country south east of Memphis do a fair job on it too. The North Mississippi All Stars

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This song made it all the way to Ghana, Songhoy Blues get after it too

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December 14, 2023

Almost done on my latest road trip, Songhoy Blues, they understand. "Time To Go Home"

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December 12, 2023

A good friend I served with - a fellow USAF SNCO is on that Kool-Aid. FYI he's a short drive to my left, but - well look

He received a fund-raising email from the Biden Harris campaign saying that a donation today entered him in a lottery for a chance to have a cup of coffee with Joe and Kamala.

His public Facebook response:

It's almost worth it to condemn you for your support of Netanyahu's slaughter of innocents to your face.
Step aside Joe. We need a candidate who can beat Trump or Haley and who doesn't boost the genocide in Gaza.

So, from me, this:

Stop minimizing Hamas' culpability in this situation. BTW I hate Netanyahu and the Likud. They hold a large share of responsibility for this, but FFS for years Hamas built infrastructure in places that innocents would be harmed in a counterattack. They rely on the world's hatred for Jews to give them cover for the atrocities they committed to start this war. AND IT'S WORKING


He has since reminded me that he condemned Hamas in October...

December 10, 2023

Jesse Roper. "Horizons"

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I couldn't find an audio only clip from the actual album. Just a video with a looooong intro.

So, soundtrack it is