Posts about The Blues
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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and Tagged: Canned Heat, Guitar, John Fahey, Self Marketing, The Blues |
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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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and Tagged: Guitar, Matt Anderson, Music, The Blues, Video Clip |
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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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and Tagged: Family, Guitar, Music, The Blues, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
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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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and Tagged: JJ Cale, North Mississippi, R. L. Burnside, Slide Guitar, The Blues |
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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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and Tagged: Black Snake Moan, Christina Ricci, R. L. Burnside, Samuel L. Jackson, The Blues |
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