AMERICANA | Traditional Roots & Blues (only)

[skipjames]

 

[skipjames]

Not sure whether this qualifies as blues or rock n roll but I ld like to dedicate it to @jasperkent , who looks like a cool person from the interactions we had so far

 

[jasperkent]

Not sure whether this qualifies as blues or rock n roll but I ld like to dedicate it to @jasperkent , who looks like a cool person from the interactions we had so far

Thanks!
That's always been a favorite of mine.

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[brokedownpalace10]

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[brokedownpalace10]

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

@Jerry Atrick

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[Jerry Atrick]

@Jerry Atrick

That is some sick mando pickin. Harmonica ain't too bad either.

Cluck Old Hen was one of the first songs I learned to play on clawhammer banjo. The version I was taught is almost identical to the one below. It's almost easier to play fast than it is to play slow.

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

Watched the film "Two Trains Runnin" last night all about Skip James & Son House @skipjames
Time for some of Mr House, Robert Johnson who?..........

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[skipjames]

Watched the film "Two Trains Runnin" last night all about Skip James & Son House

TY I ve never head of thidmovie ,I ll check it out @Zopiclone bandit !And now for some more Son House....

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

TY I ve never head of thidmovie ,I ll check it out @Zopiclone bandit !And now for some more Son House....

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

Mr James

 

[Zopiclone bandit]

@Jerry Atrick @skipjames
Yeah I'm in that kinda early RL Burnside mood right now

 

[skipjames]

In my opinion, R.L Burnside´s best album.With some exception I m not a big fan of electric blues in general; Also perfect timing , i was trying to explain to my bandmates why I am so obessed by acoutic blues and the thing is is UNIVERSAL, like no other music will ever be, and is a tool with which you can talk about anything, from Jesus to drugs and booze, and it will ALWAYS work. Today I ve played this one to a guy who has sever depression and does not know a word of english and ...he felt better. And we ve never met, probably will never meet, still we got this connection . Dunno whether is the mix of morphine coke and booze with a xanax to finally go to sleep but there ´s definitely something that the blues has and other bmusic lack. Maybe because , as Alan Lmax said, Poor s boys long away from home described perfectly the general condition of the humanity of the XXI century? Here s trhe song I ve played to the guy (obviously in a simplified version)

 

[skipjames]

@Zopiclone bandit @Jerry Atrick do you like this guy ? (Yep, I m very spiritual when I do everything that s not supposed to be done from an harm reduction perspective and I m still standing. Still, at 40 I should know better but you know how it is.....)

 

[skipjames]

Do you guys play any instrument ? Do you have some songs that you love so much that the very idea of playing them in public make you overanxious, like a teen flopping with the girl of gthis dreams? I ve two songs I feel I will never be enough to play as I ld love to, they are not even THAt difficult but they are so amazing that I feel I will never be able to make a decent version of them. One is this :