Wow!, Now your talking my language! Keep coming with the sugustions Charlie. You may hit on stuff I wouldn't automatically think of so as suggest as many as you can think of and I'm sure I'll do some of them. Thanks! Duke
Your taste is impecable - but if you're looking for suggestions how's Bill Jennings take on 'Willow Weep for Me' - or some Les Paul? Love the tune he did with Bing Crosby 'It's Been a Long Long Time' or one with Mary Ford 'I'm a Fool To Care'. Lastly (because this list could never end!) how about the version of 'Blue Moon' Julie London did? Great guitar on that (do you know who played it?) These are all beautiful tunes, but I love some deep blues like Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters just as much. Cheers
Just signed up ( last year ) kind of. I have been playing guitar for about 40 years now. Most of that was electric. about 15 years ago I startd with acoustic blues. My weakness has always been alternating bass. I just couldn't get it. That is until I tried the lesson for baby please don't go. after just 2 days I got it, mostly. I am stil working on it about twice a day for 30-60 minutes each time. I just don't know how to thank you. You are not just a talented player, you are also a great teacher! I went out and got a camera so I can try to post something up. Computers are my other weakness. Once again THANK YOU. keep up the good work! In the picture of my profile thats me leaning up against the wall, I ran into you in New Orleans when I dropped my national off at Steves house of Vintage guitars to get a Highlander put in. I had heard your songs and was working on Sweet black angel. I didn't know it was you until I got the Midnight and Day CD... small world.
Anyone based in London want to get together and jam some of this stuff? Can't believe such a perfect site as this exists - every jam I go to is the usual heavy distortion rock crap - would love to meet other musicians into exactly this kind of music...
absolutely love your lessons best thing next to having you teach me in my living room. Thanks! When will you be playing in Southern Calif? lastly, Duke meets Earl is one album all guitarist need to hear. It is a college degree in how to play guitar. Wonderful stuff. I would love to hear lessons on how you approach phrasing on your solos as in the album. What amp were you using? Thanks, Edwin
I'm 64, played some guitar in my youth, but since I retired started learning to play the harmonica (blues style). I could never find sheet music with tabutation on it for the riffs. Your explanation on how playing a harmonica was comparable to singing clairified things and changed the way I approach my practicess. Thank you for your lessons; they've connected for me.
@ Richard Capps...thanks so much for checking the lessons out and I am glad you find them useful. I will in future post a lesson on Pony Blues. Look forward to seeing you post a video when you are ready. Best....
New to Sonic Junction and enjoying getting to grips with some of the great songs youve covered. Catfish Blues lesson in particular. One of my favourite songs i've discovered is Charley Patton's Pony Blues and especially your version on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpSHTU3ZjyU. Would love it if you could one day post a lesson on this. Rich
Duke, thanks for the reply. I am glad you heard them. This is amazing, what a gem!
May I ask if you know whether these records have been (or ever will be) made available publicly or commercially? I am assuming Steve Miller or someone in his circle played those to you. If they aren't available publicly, would you be kind enough to pass the message to him that there is at least one T-Bone fan out there dying to listen to those recordings? Publishing and selling music on itunes should be pretty easy these days.
I don't know how it would ever be possible but I'd be willing to drive hundreds of miles to listen those recordings just once.
Hi Tony, I believe what you have heard is T -Bone plying a party at Steve's dad's house. Yes I have heard it and it's facinating. T -Bone plays Caravan, I'm confessin and a few more standards. Very cool stuff!
I haven't been around for a while, hopefully I can still post a question. I've just ran into a live T-Bone Walker recording I've never heard of in a Steve Miller box set. Here's the amazon link.
I was curious to find the source of this, and found out that Steve Miller's dad was a friend of T-Bone's and was an audio recording engineer and he recorded this live cut. It is extremely rare to find live T-Bone recordings, outside the American Folk Blues Festival cuts and a few of his later recordings floating around on youtube. Of course one might argue that all of T-Bone's recordings were live cuts, fair point.
Searching around further, I ran into this interview (under title First Guitar) with Steve Miller, where he claims to have recordings of T-Bone playing at his dad's house. Reading this made me feel like that kid in the Crossroads movie who is looking to find the lost Robert Johnson song.
My question: has anyone (I am hoping Duke maybe?) heard these recordings? Do you know if Steve Miller has any plans to publish them? If not, does anyone know him here?
THANK YOU FOR MAKING YOUR MASTERCLASS CD LESSONS!!!
I have been playing the harmonica off and on since I was 16. I am a single mom with 3 kids. I didn't play that much ... just to Sonny Terry on records while I was raising the kids (and working full time) But them dang kids are grown : ) and now I'm playing a lot. I am in an all woman blues band. I just bought your Masterclass cds and reading your intro made me cry. I think I cried about the chords. I've been trying to mimic the white boys in the last few years but I am a chord girl. Of course I do single notes. But my style is so rhythm. And I thought there was something wrong with me. I'd love to get a lesson from you. One lesson. I can do skype or whatever you do for long distance lessons if you do them. Thank you.
I would be very happy to take Rick Estrin's lessons on Chicago Shuffle with me. I will be in many places with wifi, so I could continue to download lessons. I leave for Germany on July 17 and then will be in Poland, Lithuiania, Estonia, and Sweden. It would be so cool to be tuning in to Rick in Warsaw or Talinn! Let me know what you would like to do.
Thanks Harvey. The Beta is going really well. We have plenty of testers --- so no worries. That said, if you want to take the lessons with you while you travel --- it's exactly the kind of use case we're trying to support.
Hi Char --- the Android App will likely be towards the end of the year. We want to focus on the iPhone and iPad until we have a great experience and then copy it to Android. Would be great to have you a part of the Adroid Beta.
I am very excited to hear about the idea of an app for Sonic Junction lessons. I would definitely make use of it. I will be traveling thoughout the next few months or I would commit to the beta test. If you absolutely need me, I would do what i could.
Thanks Harvey. The Beta is going really well. We have plenty of testers --- so no worries. That said, if you want to take the lessons with you while you travel --- it's exactly the kind of use case we're trying to support.
I really dig of this kind of music [Afro(-American)] and I always say it has chosen me and not the other way around. Being a white European guy this may be odd but it seems like it was always there and the music I loved (even as a child) always had black roots.
I started playing guitar at the age of 17 and since then it goes on and of. Played guitar in a Chicago blues band (early Little Walter & the Aces configuration - 2 guitars, drums and harp/vocal). After that I quit playing music for some time (desillution + went back to school).
3 years ago I decide it was about time I learned to play the guitar in a proper way, so I got myself an acoustic and grew calluses on my right hand was well.
I really hope to get a better understanding of the deeper groove in this music and make my right hand as laidback as possible.
What a great reply Larry! Thank you so much. I imagine the amp and mic can be like instruments in and of themselves, so I imagine they require similar time and attention. And I like the approach of Jerry and Rick, in that they want you to develop your ear so they don't give you tabs.
With that in mind, I haven't given playing with an amp much time at all. I figure my playing the harp should be developed first. But Rick's performance with this number includes the amp/mic, so I've begun to think about giving it a try.
For now, I will spend some time tweaking away:) Thanks again.
