gimme a pigfoot...

and a bottle of beer...
Hi Jerry Lee.
Saw you on Dave TV last night.
looking good dude.

going to chicago baby...

sorry but I cant take you...

move it on over...

move over little dog cause the big dog's moving in

Top guitar solo of all time..

The Number One Guitar Solo of All Time.

The most influential blues solo of all time has to be on Hank Williams 1947 hit 45 Move It On Over.

Probably played by Chet Atkins accompanying Hanks band the Drifting Cowboys.

In a sense Atkins unlocked the whole history of blues and jazz guitar in one one chorus solo on a shitkicking country and western weepy.

Thats cool.

As one gets further and further into the history of country and rock and roll music this solo shows up in a million permutations.

Previously blues and white music were separated by an invisible line, the triplet meter and the baudy and risque. Cross fertilisation was there, but never overt to the record buying public.

The solo itself starts out as a clear and intune outline of the first two  bars of a standard  'slow' 12 bar progresssion till Chet starts playing BB King style flourishes and glissandos all of his own.
All understated but  power and sophistication are all there and the careful listener will find the unique “phrasing” in lots of other strange places.

But there it is.

Get this one down and you have got it all.

The clarity and power of this record arrived at the same time as the great leap forward in electric guitar construction and more leisure time for bedroom cowboys who had the yen to replicate this style and add their own thing which resulted in the explosion of music in the 1950s.

Buddy Holly was the next great virtuoso but that is another story and  the maestro jazzers like Jimmy Hall and all the rest of the crew were in on it too.

A little of the good stuff goes a long way.

Whipty doo.

silver ferns...

forget all the shit talk.
you are on your own now so get ya f*cking arses into gear and move it.
time to start making your own rules.

over and out.

good luck all blacks in chicago...

go to 2120 South Michigan Avenue.
have a ball.
say a prayer for the unknown soldiers.

one more thing...

some might wonder why this blog focusses on the blues.
thats a long story.
however the thing is that when you can play a whole blues chorus then you can play a solo for anything.
thats a major claim but it is true.
two for the price of one.
improve your musicianship and listen to some good music.
and you never know.
one day a nw genius like keef or eric or jeff beck will appear.
no false gods need apply.
tee hee.
dig?

lets go to san francisco....

sorry you are too late.

shoulda been here in 68.

Big Bill Broonzy...

listen to the music.
dont listen to the critics.
especially the British ones.
like all critics they cant play themselves and want to put weight on things that dont matter.
the music is the thing and you can find it all out for yourselves.
have fun on the journey kiddies.

british blues booooom....

the overwhelming importance of the British Blues Boom is that the protagonists more or less taught themselves to play.
They never went to a music school and they weren't groomed for stardom by moguls.
Now everything is pre-digested and regurgitated pap but6 hey thats life in the modern world.