Younger days?  You can remember them?  Sorry about the track - I now have some decent internet - I'm going to upload some higher quality versions of these. Thanks for the comments though.

Another nice one Vinny! Duke

Very Nice Vinny. I was a Tom Rush fan in my younger days. Unfortunately the track started skipping about half way through. Duke

"Catbird"

Me too...

You know that period of blues was not that clean all the time - nothing wrong with sounding like a drunk bluesman - if he's a real bluesman.  Being off beat here and there - if it works - it works.  I think it's a cool sound and groove.

Chromatic would be good.

This is my wind-storm rendition of Rick's "Sonneyboy's Groove."  I sort of tear through it and let the the branches and limbs scatter everywhere!.  In fact, winds in Maine last night were gusting to 50 mph, tearing down some big limbs in this part of town and knocking our power out.  I didn't want to miss the Open Mic (!), so I came out to the musical practice rooms at the local university where the power is on to run my laptop. Sorry I forgot to even take off my coat!  

Thanks Rick. Thanks to everyone at Sonic junction for providing great access to blues harmonica with great players and teachers likes Jerry Portnoy, Rick Estrin and Dennis Greunling.

Harvey

Marty...real nice,  laidback, relaxed, you just played a story on that blue tele and it had alot of soulful blues.  Good tune for the last day of open mic  .

I enjoy a lot of the very old music, and these two are a couple of my favorites: "St. James Infirmary" and "House of the Rising Sun."  They are both in Am and are played with a similar picking style.  Due to weather my voice is rather gravelly at the moment, but that sort of suits these songs so I thought I would give them a go here.  

This is a J.J. Cale song called "The Breeze."  I've never heard an acoustic version of this song, let alone a slide-resonator version, but the song seemed to lend itself to this kind of treatment. Something different, with a very country feel.  Played in Open G-Spanish Tuning on Steel Duolian.

Okay, finally got a good enough internet connection to get a low res video uploaded tonight.  I have a few more, I'll see if I can get them up here.  This is a song by Leroy Carr called "Texas Mobile Line."  I have not been able to find an original recording of this song by Carr; if anyone can turn me onto one, please do.  He often recorded with Scrapper Blackwell.  This is based on an older record by Tom Rush.  Played in Open G - Spanish Tuning.

I updated this link to a higher quality video - sound should be okay now.

Here's something that I've been working on. It's not blues but you'll recognize it. The cool thing is that I really did not have to learn any new chords or progression concepts. Everything I needed I had already learned from the lessons I've studied with Duke.

Cool stuff, Steve! Here's one of my works in progress. It's Cliff Gallop's first solo from Race With The Devil by Gene Vincent. Those opening double pull-offs triplets are still super hard for me, but I can finally sort of play them *almost* reliably after many months of practice at about 65% speed. I'll get 'em eventually. Anyway, I think this is a really great solo; I especially love that ascending octave riff. 

Dave and Alex: thanks for the supportive comments.  Yeah, I like to try and capture the feeling and groove on a song, and let that carry me through the rest of the notes.  As I said, this is not where I want it to be, but you have to play a song like this a long time to really master it.  Weather just cleared here and I have some internet connectivity again, so I might be able to upload something tonight. Frustrating end to a frustrating year musically.  But here's something I did some time ago that's already on YouTube; some Skip James.

Great Job, Steve on one of my favorite guitar instrumentals! Duke

Bill Jennings, Big Boy, intro and 24 bars of solo at 1/2 speed. A work in progress. 

Signing off cuz the pups are up.   

Steve

Thanks for this and the other nice feedback, Vinny! Very much appreciated. 

That was great Steve! That's not an easy song to play. Correctly that is! and you nailed it. Nice Guild! Duke

Ha...!!!

I thought I sounded lousy... I thought you guys would be all over me for being out of tune and off tempo...

I sound like a drunk bluesman... but I don't drink.

I like it...the sound of your guitar is authentic...Dave said right...you play well and you play from your heart..not a thing for everybody :)

I do apreciate it Duke. Many thanks!

many thanks my friend :)

Thanks, Duke!

Hey Vinny,  you play from your heart and keep it driving,  I like it like that!