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HI all, happy new lesson Friday! I want to start today by thanking Mr Don Deering for helping on my Blues journey of discovery, he forces me to look back before I can move forward to the guitarist I’d like to be….I have met people and sounds I never knew existed…Gracias Don!
In one of those journies, I came across a playlist on youtube called swamp blues and heavy swamp blues. Though I’ve heard swamp blues before, think the movie Black Snake Moan and many players, I really didn’t know that it had a separate history in the Blues. For those interested here is a link to learn a little more and I’m sure Don will chime in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_blues
But it is the sounds and tones that make my remaining hair stand on end!! That slow heaviness I realized is the basis for the music I like most of the time, it’s baked into so many songs that we know…though the experts say it has fallen out of favor commercially, there is a revival of sorts with a thing called heavy swamp blues. So again, I went back and found where I want to go. Here are some great selections to start with, I hope you enjoy them and find them useful too! Roberto
slim harpo’s original
adults only Black Snake MOan video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrtX36XB48
Roberto
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Nice selections there Roberto. I love that swamp sound. I requested a swamp blues lesson from Brian awhile back. I would like to learn how to play that style.
Ray
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HI Ray, thanks…well we can keep asking right? Although he did do a catfish style lesson and a couple others in that style, try lesson ep190 and ep58 those have all the elements to get you started……
Roberto
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Wow, is it Friday already?
Love it, Roberto. That’s like ZZ Top/CCR on steroids. What a great collection of guitar tones and riffs. I agree, I think that sound is the basis for the kind of blues I love.
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Thanks John, it’s as if all I want to play is this and Hendrix!! I even realized where to use a good tremolo, always struggled with where to use it……if you dig a little deeper this music is connected by some bands to a harder heavier form that starts to resemble heavy metal sounds……here’s a couple more…..lets start a band….!!!
Roberto
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Wow, Roberto, thanks, I’m glad to hear that I’m putting it together in a way that makes you want to check it out. I hope others are enjoying it too. Thank you, Kevin.
Back in the century before last, before the internet—hard to imagine there was such a time, I know—back when it seems like we told the time by the length of the shadows and got our directions from the moss on the trees, all music was local and regional. Many people never traveled away from where they were born and learned all their culture from their neighbors. But late in the century came the railroads and telegraph, not long after that records and radio, then TV, and the itinerant bluesmen and other musicians took their on the road and others heard it, but there was a time not all that long ago that place and sound were really interconnected, that slow-moving swamp sound reminds me of the steamy heat of southern Louisiana and Georgia.
And speaking of “looking back” that’s exactly what I suggested in my reply to your nice comment on Blues Roots. Tried to dig out some of the blues that were influencing the English blues musicians (who included rock ‘n’ roll and R&B right along with the blues in their stylized recreation of the music of black Americans).
For some reason, Slim Harpo’s “I’m a King Bee” didn’t show up above, so here ’tis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYmZFEMkzb8I really love Lightnin’ Slim and Lazy Lester.
Don D.
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This music goes so well when you wake up in the morning and still got a few drops of whiskey in the bottle.
Thanks for posting all this great old time swampy blues, hmm… time to go out and check the throwlines along the creek for some bullheads or even some snapp’n turtles. Turtle leg soup a com’n up for today’s meal. Got to make some cornbread now.The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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Good morning, Roberto, I misread your credit as saying the song was below it. Now that you said that, I clearly understand what you meant. Oh well, I’m glad an extra Slim Harpo will be alright.
Nice additions, Ale!
The guitar rhythms of Eddie Taylor (as heard on Jimmy Reed’s records, which were the most commercially successful blues records) contributed to the swamp blues vibe. But in the swamp blues style, they’re dragged out, exaggerated. Down the road, I think I’m going to use your post as a starting point for a Blues Roots topic.
Don’t take this personally, because I know it isn’t you, but I object to the flag of slavery, of the Confederacy, and used by the modern-day racists like the Klan being displayed anywhere, so I skipped over that video.
Not directly related to this post, Eddie Taylor also played rhythm on a lot of the 1950s-mid ’60s John Lee Hooker records.
Don D.
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