@uzless
I bet you never knew of my history of studying early blues not that you would give a rats ass but they were my hero's, I had dinner at Libba Cotton's house, spent the evening recording and in general awe of Rev Gary Davis, my guitar teach was Backwards Sam Firk, AKA Michael A Stewart, a record collector who didn't just collect old 78's, he learned most of the guitar licks on most of the records he had, some 10,000 of them AND was with Tom Hoskins, AKA FANG and Mike who walked the walk besides talk the talk and went to Avalon Mississippi to rediscover Missississppi John Hurt, whom I had been studying recordings of before I even knew Mike or Tom but they brought him back to the folk circuit and he stayed at Mikes place in Maryland for 3 months, alas, years before I became his student.
Now all of them are dead sept me.
I have been steeped in folk music from the age of 10, was never a big fan of pop music because folk music was genuine AND if power goes out, we can still be heard playing our acoustic instruments. And I have 420 tracks of instrumentals and some songs sung by my wife and some friends, on Sound Cloud, so I have been in it for a long time. I played in 3 bands and actually got paid. Some national TV coverage also and played music for a theater group, the Onion Company theater that produced a Brendan Behan play called the Hostage, starring James Cromwell and a few more well known folks, we did that gig for 5 months 4 nights a week. Played folk festivals all over the US and all over Israel, so I do have chops and a legacy now. So if you don't like it kiss my instrumental ass.
@sonhouse saidI am a massive blues and bluegrass fan and have been for decades so....
@uzless
I bet you never knew of my history of studying early blues not that you would give a rats ass but they were my hero's, I had dinner at Libba Cotton's house, spent the evening recording and in general awe of Rev Gary Davis, my guitar teach was Backwards Sam Firk, AKA Michael A Stewart, a record collector who didn't just collect old 78's, he learned most of the guitar ...[text shortened]... over Israel, so I do have chops and a legacy now. So if you don't like it kiss my instrumental ass.
I'm also a Carly Simon fan so....
your points are becoming more blunt by the second.
@uzless
What kind of blues? Pre war? Those dudes were real pioneers. The post war folks were great too but I like the pioneers. Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson,
Lonnie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt and the like. Later dudes like Joseph Spence, I think it was Sam Charters who came to Andros Island ( a place I worked and lived in for 2 years, but never had the honor of meeting Joseph) and came across some guitar music and it was a construction site, a house being built and he goes round back and sees Joseph playing on a break, he askes, where is the OTHER guy?
Just me, he says, so old Sammy tells Jody Stecher, whom I met several times, and he comes back and records Joseph.
I think that turned into a record called 'the Real Bahamas'
Ry Cooder did 'Great dreams from Heaven' and did a great job of that, I could not figure out for the life of me where he got that bass note he played till years later when I discovered open C tuning.