Thanks for the share! In return, I recommend this book to you if it's not already in your collection. It's a classic (IMO): https://www.amazon.com/Delta-Blues-Mississippi-Revolutionized-American/dp/0393337502/
Count me among the blues fans, guys. Since 1959 (age 16). And it was John Lee who started it, for me. Got lots of albums, plenty of books, four guitars, a hatful of harps .... you know how it is. Speaking of legendary Bluesmen, I see we lost another great - James Cotton, left us Mar. 17th at age 81. I saw James and his band, back around 1966, in a bar here in my home town. Dynamite! I'll never forget him. J.
Thanks! I will have to check it out! I love music of all kinds. I sometimes like to posts "songs of the day", and it just depends on what kind off of mind I am in as to which kinds of songs I play. :smile:
I started on harmonica, around 1963. Still play it - hope never to stop. I have one harp Sonny Terry gave me around 1964-65. He was an extremely nice man. So were most of the other blues musicians I met. I picked up guitar about 1965. I got to like Cajun music in the early 80s and got two accordions - one piano and a one-row button one. Plus an Anglo concertina. If you know diatonic* harmonica, you can play concertina almost right away. I also have an Appalachian dulcimer. That is another wonderful diatonic* instrument - remarkably easy to play. A lot of music in those! I bought a DIY ukulele kit in Winners a while back; it got shelved because I had other projects, but it's coming along nicely now. Be finished soon. :smile: If you want to hear a great Blues concertina player, try this guy. He has an English concertina, with sharps and flats - plays & sings Elmore James' (and Robert Johnson's) "Dust my Broom." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Asf1a7VEE * diatonic = regular do-re-mi major scale. No sharps or flats, but on some instruments, like harmonica, you can mouth-make them, once you learn how. J.
