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I've heard that Eric Dolphy used to sit in his backyard in Los Angeles with his flute-listening to and playing along with the birds...
Commented Apr 1, 2009 on Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the birds. That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere. 2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar...
Check out her exquisite rendition of "For All We Know" with Geri Allen on piano-as featured on the soundtrack for Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy. Heartbreaking perfection and a really cool low-fi ambience-it kind of sounds like it was recorded in a room in the hotel in the film that Matt Dillon moves into when he cleans up...
Commented Mar 4, 2009 on for love of abbey at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
for love of abbey
Many musicians lead double lives with other creative pursuits. In most cases, their musical prowess greatly overshadows that secondary output. Who can dispute that Miles Davis was a much greater musician and band leader than painter? Ditto Captain Beefheart. But sometimes the dabbling is s...
Thanks for the comments and feedback-that clip of Clarence Ashley playing "Cukoo Bird" is THE reason that I got a banjo and decide to learn clawhammer. Richie Stearns is amazing-that's a wicked version of "Leather Britches." Indeed Al was the bass player in Beausoleil-I'm not sure if they have a new guy now or not but you can see him with James Leva in a band called Purgatory Mountain. There's a few clips of Al with them on YouTube.
Commented Feb 16, 2009 on The clawhammer genius of Al Tharp at WFMU's Beware of the Blog
The clawhammer genius of Al Tharp
You know how it is when you go see this band that you're sort of interested in, but maybe not really sure, and then they turn out to be surprisingly amazing and afterward you end up buying everything you can get your hands on by them and becoming a total fanatic? Then you're kicking yourself for...
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