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Dani will be at Warrington Blues Club on 27 Mar 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QY1MOxcvtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRdSR2uTVoY
Just two of the great guitarists who played with the legendary William Clarke back in the day.
John Markowski first. Man has he got ‘verb going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3i2sLJJbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3i2sLJJbE
Next is Steve Samuels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUit-dhxWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUit-dhxWc
Andre Williams – Cadillac Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujSCHFvWUWg
and here’s Humpin’ Bumpin’ And Thumpin’ that I like much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPnULA3_sgQ
“Gettin the Blues” is an independent production envisioned as a trilogy of films about the history of the Blues with the first part featuring the blues scene in Newcastle in the North East of England.
http://www.youtube.com/user/echofilms
The trailer is featured below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22c2PGYyiE
As an echofilm bonus here’s the wonderful and intense Lyndon Anderson with his top class band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DctzxTKZzM
Bonnie sings and plays this really well and Portnoy is a legend. I love his three hole draw and his unique vibrato.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGJE72B5600
Check out the phrasing on this little clip. What a gem. Love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWy5eP8v-SY
Here’s Funnybone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81RSy-yXs4
All I ever want to do is to go to a blues club one day and hear groove playing like that.
From 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pq2vxqszpk
From his first album in 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHHxMNkMl4
Roger Stolle of Cat Head recently sent out a news letter that alerted me to some clips available on the BBC site from the recent Imagine series The Story of the Guitar.
BLUES BY THE ‘BBC’ IN THE UK (VARIOUS DELTA STORIES):
1. “Mr Tater comes from Clarksdale, Mississippi, a town that now finds itself firmly on the blues trail, as one of the possible location for the famous ‘crossroads’ where, according to the myth, bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in order to be able to play the guitar with uncommon skill…” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/video/mrtater/
2. “When writer Will Hodgkinson went in search of a real guitar man, he thought he found it down in Greenville Mississippi, in the character of T Model Ford…” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/video/tmodelford/
3. “Resident of Clarksdale, Mississippi, one of the several places that lay claim to the crossroads at which Robert Johnson supposedly made his pact with the Devil, Super Chikan can make a guitar out of just about anything…” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/video/superchikan/
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