blues

  1. I

    Nick LaRocca & The Original Dixieland Jazz (Jass) Band (ODJB) Recording Tiger Rag in 1917

    The channel owner claims that Jazz originated with Italians. And that the word Jazz stems from a Sicilian word “jass”. From the channel: “In this episode of Celebrating Culture: Bandleader David Hansen speaks with Charles Marsala about the "Father of Modern Jazz", Sicilian Cornetist &...
  2. Jean Jacket

    Don't Get Pistol whipped By the Lunch Lady

    https://app.suno.ai/song/3e6e9f66-0637-49ba-b3fd-b4502eb3be8d
  3. Spiritual Stratocaster

    Carlos SANTANA APPRECIATION THREAD

    AWw chea! I think we should show respect to the Guitar Legend Carlos Santana. Mexican from Jalisco Mexico by way of the Bay area..San Francisco. He got well known on the scene by playing guitar at LSD parties..(people doing LSD and watching tripping films and tripping psychedelic stuff on...
  4. R

    Anyone here a melodic guitar player?

    Got a decent priced small body acoustic guitar (Little Martin LX1). Just know a few chords, can strum with pick and fingerpick, do the spider exercises and know the E Minor pentatonic scale/Minor Pentatonic Shape #1. Hard to freestyle on it. Piano is so much easier to start. Have my first...
  5. Spiritual Stratocaster

    ANY guitarists on here? I made a HENDRIX inspired track.

    @Rozay Oro made this last night..that beat O was talm.bout :mjgrin: @blues_funk_reggae @Hoodoo Child I'm rusty as hell as I don't practice like I used to. I was practicing at one point like 10 hours a day just playing rockfish or youtube videos. I got a parts caster and a EPIPHONE SG VIBROLA
  6. Seoul Gleou

    Maybe black people should go back to black people music

    time for brehs to pick up guitars again. rap is not it anymore :francis:
  7. B

    Misc blues appreciation thread?

    searched for a blues thread... didnt see anything within the last couple of years. jump on in if you got somethin to share... ill start it off sonny boy williamson - the sky is crying bb king - chains 'n thangs (ice cube - bird in the hand original sample) otis rush & ike turner - double...
  8. Spiritual Stratocaster

    What yall know about SISTER ROSETTA THARPE?

    Jawn was the first music video:wow:
  9. Brer Dog

    Some of these old blues songs were straight up demonic

    "I'm gonna cut your throat babe, gonna look down in your face Ahh, gonna look down in your face I'm gonna let some lonesome graveyard be your restin' place" "Says, I'll cut your throat, mama, drink your blood like wine I'll cut your throat, mama, now, drink your blood like wine Say, you can't...
  10. Jean Jacket

    Mississippi John Hurt - You got to Walk that Lonesome Valley

  11. Black Haven

    Juke Joint Festival

    I was really looking forward to checking it out this year but, covid19 had other plans.:beli:
  12. DrBanneker

    As a father, I am wondering if Black music is stagnating...

    Not saying there isn't good stuff out there or everything is "trash" (though I am biased to 90s hip hop & R&B since that is when I came of age). But seriously, my kids are starting to get into music and what is primarily out there is rap and pop music. Which is a variation of what was out when I...
  13. GPBear

    Other African Guitar Players

    Everyone knows the Blues is a cousin of west-african musical traditions, accompanied by european instruments (Moorish/Spanish Guitar, German Harmonica, Turkish cymbals for drums etc.) But with these guitarists, you can see/hear the overlap between the traditional and contemporary tradtions...
  14. YoungSimpson

    Blues Instrumentals?

    Is there a site I can find blues instrumentals? New school sounding blues like Pokey and Tucker. I've been searching and I can't find anything.
  15. R

    Anybody play Rocksmith?

    My little ass hands make this shyt so hard lol. Getting good at the shifting lesson though :mjgrin:
  16. El Bajo Negro

    Songhoy Blues: These cats outta Mali goin' off!

    This sound like them joints my pops listen to :blessed: Ole boy tearin that guitar to shreds :whew:
  17. xoxodede

    I Ain't Lying: Mississippi Folktales

    Hilarious and great blues doc. 1975 documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The stories include include folk and religious tales, jokes, toast telling sessions, and...
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