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The Legendary Blind Joe Death

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Blind Joe Death was the name John Fahey recorded his earliest recordings under. Nowadays many musicians use pseudonyms, but in 1959 pretending you were something or someone else while self releasing an album was near unheard of…

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Great Canadian Guitarists

Friday, February 10th, 2012

My cousin in Austria has been on a big Matt Anderson kick, so he and I posted several YouTube videos of Matt playing various original and cover songs on Facebook. I missed out on seeing Matt last time he passed through Vancouver…

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Zen and the Art of the Blues

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Today wasn’t the best day. Last night I couldn’t sleep. I was reading “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” and I got up to look up a book on actual motorcycle maintenance, you’d be surprised how influential this book is. It is found in the philosophy section, but I’m more interested in the motorcycle maintenance and I guess the father son dynamic. My dad was a biker…

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Mississippi Hill Country Blues

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

This is my favourite style and one I’ve been trying to approximate a lot over the last year or so. R. L. Burnside was a big discovery for me. Seeing him as well as JJ Cale and Bruce Cockburn prompted me to ditch the guitar pic for good…

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My favourite actress

Monday, February 19th, 2007

When I lived and taught in Japan I got asked a lot of questions. I actually put up the main portion of Muschamp.ca just prior to going to Japan. I thought I had answers for a lot of the big questions, but one question that isn’t answered anywhere and that I was frequently asked by my many female Japanese students was “Who is my favourite actress?”

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