Electric Boogie

This little baby is brill. For such a tiny box you can get a real dirty sound and it all run off a 9 volt battery!

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Would the Real Robert Johnson Please Stand Up?

or a bit More Revisionist Music History...
I know the internet is full of rubbish and this might well be another bit, but I've just been reading Steady Rolling Man which looks at Robert Johnsons recordings and asks whether the bluesman we know may well be the product of archaic recording techniques. It's proposed that RJ was recorded at the wrong speed and pitch and there some examples of his recording slowed down and reduced in pitch. I've had a bash at lowering the pitch on these samples. I'm not completely convinced but I think there may be something in it. I always thought that the original Dock Boggs recordings have a similar feel.

Crossroad Blues original


Crossroad Blues pitch lowered 10%

Whispering North Country Roads

Two more for the pot...

Whispering North Country Roads


Aimless Wandering Banjo Blues

Huddie

Strangely, my professional life and banjo-life have started to collide recently, which feels a bit odd. Aside from a sad preoccupation with the banjo I'm also involved in the world of contemporary art and have started making work again as part of an internship at the University of Teeside. What started to come out though are a whole series of works derived from banjo, folk, blues and the arcane world of music and musical instruments.

I've started on a series which is based on the names of American folk and blues musicians and I'm particularly interested in the 20s, 30s and 40s. So if you have any particularly obscure ones drop me a line and be part of a contemporary art project. (make em real names though!)

Guitars, Gardening and Life

Here's a great little blues rag from OMK's Blog

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The site is full of great music and vegetables!

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Groanbox Boys

If you get chance to see 'em, take it. I saw them in in 2008 when they were in North Yorkshire and they play a great mix of folk, blues and old-time music - fantastic.



http://www.groanboxboys.com/