Time: 42:45
Size: 100,5 MB
Released: 2000
Styles: Acoustic Blues: Finger-Picked Guitar
Art: Front
1. G Slide (3:41)
2. Half-Finger Blues #1 (2:32)
3. Slidin' 'Round (2:00)
4. Tip-Top Blues (3:40)
5. Duck Sauce (1:51)
6. Dreamin' The Blues (2:51)
7. Who Dunnit? (1:58)
8. Move Over Blues (2:42)
9. O.K. Blues (3:35)
10. Half-Finger Blues #2 (2:23)
11. Berry Trail (5:01)
12. Sunday Night Shake (2:12)
13. Hold The Mayo (2:53)
14. Highbridge Blues (2:52)
15. Hurry Up Blues (2:26)
Born in 1943 and grew up in the Bronx. We were all music crazy in the 60’s, from Django Reinhart to Doc Watson and Charlie Byrd to Blind Lemon Jefferson. I first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Lee Hooker on Nat Hentoff’s radio show-an experience that changed my life. Artie Traum and Larry Sandberg showed me the rudiments of finger picking.
Brownie McGee and Reverend Gary Davis were teaching guitar in Harlem but I was too shy to go, so I listened to lots of L.P’s of the old guys on my parents Grundig Majestic Hi-Fi and tried to teach myself their styles --which I am still doing 50 years later! Still trying to figure out that Snooks Eaglin run--how he got that tone--oh well!
Had a blues band out of Cambridge, Mass. in the seventies-played the clubs and opened for guys like Hound Dog Taylor at Joe’s Place in Inman Square.
Tried playing with a flat-pick, but dropped it enough times in the middle of a set to know it wasn’t for me.
I’m finger-style all the way…thumb keeps the rhythm… first two fingers and sometimes third play the melody… thumb first finger up and down for fast runs-used to use metal fingerpicks… now I like the plastic ones.
I have had a pretty crazy life in the midst of which I sometimes miss playing for an audience-so I play the clubs now and then…lately in Marin County, California.
Recorded “Dreamin' the Blues” which my brother Andy produced in 2000. My guitar was an old Sigma that I paid $100.00 for. Now I have a few better guitars and a bunch of new tunes so maybe we’ll do another CD soon. Stay tuned!
Brownie McGee and Reverend Gary Davis were teaching guitar in Harlem but I was too shy to go, so I listened to lots of L.P’s of the old guys on my parents Grundig Majestic Hi-Fi and tried to teach myself their styles --which I am still doing 50 years later! Still trying to figure out that Snooks Eaglin run--how he got that tone--oh well!
Had a blues band out of Cambridge, Mass. in the seventies-played the clubs and opened for guys like Hound Dog Taylor at Joe’s Place in Inman Square.
Tried playing with a flat-pick, but dropped it enough times in the middle of a set to know it wasn’t for me.
I’m finger-style all the way…thumb keeps the rhythm… first two fingers and sometimes third play the melody… thumb first finger up and down for fast runs-used to use metal fingerpicks… now I like the plastic ones.
I have had a pretty crazy life in the midst of which I sometimes miss playing for an audience-so I play the clubs now and then…lately in Marin County, California.
Recorded “Dreamin' the Blues” which my brother Andy produced in 2000. My guitar was an old Sigma that I paid $100.00 for. Now I have a few better guitars and a bunch of new tunes so maybe we’ll do another CD soon. Stay tuned!
Dreamin' The Blues