King of speed jump blues Clarence Gatemouth Brown, live in New Orleans 1984. Easy listening chosen especially for The Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘guitar’
Pressure Cooker & Up Jump The Devil
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 58 Comments › )Filed under OOT, Open thread at April 16th, 2013 - 10:00 pm
RIP Doc Watson (1923 – 2012)
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 80 Comments › )Filed under History, Music, OOT, Open thread at June 2nd, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Doc Watson was one of the most influential guitar pickers of our time, and he passed away 29 May 2012. Struck blind before the age of 1, he overcame his handicap with hard work and earned talent. Here he is with Chet Atkins (d.2001) and a young Leo Kottke. I’m guessing the vid is from the late 70s.
[Personal gripe: Folks who post these vids on the Utoobage should give some detail in the descriptions. Many do, but too many don’t.]
And speaking of personal gripes, it’s time for a big ‘ol honkin’ pickin’ & flickin’ Saturday Night edition of The Overnight Open Thread.
Saturday Night Blues
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 50 Comments › )Filed under Entertainment, History, Music, OOT, Open thread at April 28th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
On growing up in New Orleans Parish: “There was music all around us, and in my family you’d better play something, even if you just banged on a tin can.” Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson created the single-note guitar solo in the 1920s, and decades passed before the guitar was regarded as more than a background rhythm instrument. Although Johnson is primarily regarded as a bluesman, he played other styles equally well.
I don’t know who’s on drums or piano, but that’s Willie Dixon on bass, and the vid is likely from the mid to late 1960s. Don’t know who introduced Lonnie Johnson on that vid either, so the best thing is for me to shut up and introduce
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Don’t Think Twice
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 98 Comments › )Filed under Entertainment, Music, OOT, Open thread, World at July 30th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
