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Post by pete1951 on Feb 15, 2024 14:57:54 GMT
Pete, there are dozens of blues shows on local FM radio and on the Internet. RadioPlayer is a great app for listening to shows that are out of reach of a regular radio. Shine On Michael[/quote] This is true, but I don’t have a smartphone and don’t have WiFi in all areas of my home. Also I know how to download BBC stuff on very old iPad and use this to listen around the place. My children say they will show me how to link in to some of the shows you mentioned , but until they do it’s back to the BBC search button. Pete
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 15, 2024 17:14:42 GMT
Both good albums. I remember getting Sam's album in its original package in 1978 I think it was, I was very excited. Around that time I used to go and see Sam, playing at the Half Moon in Putney. A few years on and I got to know Sam and his father, Sammy Mitchell, who was a well known Hawaiian steel guitarist in the 40s and 50s. Steve, I have also known for many years, in fact since around the time that album was released in 1988. My debut album came out at around the same time and we were often featured on the same radio shows. We met at Cambridge Folk Festival where I was invited to play with Steve and Brendan Croker, which was a lot of fun. I spoke with Steve a few days ago. He is well and enjoying life on the North Yorkshire coast. Shine On Michael Hi Michael, Is Steve’s “Steel Rail” album recorded with his National Don guitar ? Would love to hear what one sounds like. Thanks ! Yes it was recorded with Steve's Don. Shine On Michael
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Post by zimmharpo23 on Feb 15, 2024 17:28:31 GMT
On CD. North-East’s legendary acoustic pickers. A fine compilation album this one.
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Post by zimmharpo23 on Feb 15, 2024 17:30:31 GMT
On CD. Really enjoying this one also. Sad that Sam is no longer with us, taken far too young. Cheers all Andy
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Post by zimmharpo23 on Feb 21, 2024 12:01:18 GMT
Hi all Couple of albums I’ve been listening to this week, first up: This is a hugely enjoyable CD by those hard-gigging lads from Leeds. Had the pleasure of attending a superb show of theirs on Sunday. Some lovely instruments on show too. Best wishes Andy
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Post by zimmharpo23 on Feb 21, 2024 12:04:27 GMT
Hi again Here’s the second CD I’ve been playing a fair bit: Another member of Stefan Grossman’s Kicking Mule roster from the 1970s. Very intricate finger picking, so precise. So hard to believe this guy has only one pair of hands! Andy
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Post by blueshome1 on Feb 21, 2024 15:28:42 GMT
... or how to do the impossible
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2024 11:38:39 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 26, 2024 18:47:26 GMT
Woah.... I haven't listened to Free for a while. They were such a great band. All four of them steeped in the blues and very talented, and damn could they rock! Paul Rodgers and Paul Kossoff, whose guitar playing, so influenced by his friend Peter Green, were superb. They were the perfect front end for Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke's rhythm section. Such a great band.
In the early 1980s I met David Kossoff, Paul's father and a well know British actor. He was a really good guy. He enjoyed listening to me playing guitar.
Shine On Michael
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Post by blueshome1 on Feb 27, 2024 13:27:22 GMT
Wonderful film about our mentor, who would have been 100 years old last weekend
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Post by Chuck H. on Feb 28, 2024 4:44:58 GMT
Fantastic documentary, thanks so much for sharing this, I absolutely love this kind of stuff.
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 28, 2024 9:33:52 GMT
Wonderful film about our mentor, who would have been 100 years old last weekend Indeed, it is a lovely documentary about a great man. John was one of the sweetest and most humble people I have ever met. He was not a mentor to me in any way, but I was fond of him and always enjoyed spending time talking and playing music with him. I spoke with John on the phone a few days before he died, it was a conversation that I will never forget. Bless him. Here's John with another old friend of mine, Roy Bookbinder.... Here's a photo I found of John and me. I think this was 2001, maybe 2002. I loved that shirt! Shine On Michael
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Feb 29, 2024 8:42:48 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 29, 2024 10:20:15 GMT
One of my favourite covers of Preaching Blues is by The Gun Club in 1981. At the time it was an approach that I had not heard before. Oh...and of course the one I played on in 1984 that features Mike Cooper, Ian A. Anderson and me all playing slide guitar. Another one that Mike Cooper and I were listening to back then was a 1981 recording of Jinx Blues by Henry Kaiser. Pretty wild and off the edge and not one to have playing at a dinner party, but I have always had a soft spot for this track. This recording of Jinx influenced my early recordings of wild slide guitar tracks - especially my Lone Wolf Blues, Doghouse and Mannish Boy. Shine On Michael
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Post by davetracey on Mar 1, 2024 11:15:48 GMT
Great to hear The Gun Club on here. I loved that album, "Fire of Love" when it first came out. The singer, Jeffrey Lee Pearce, used to reference country blues artists in interviews around that time. An inspiration that led me out of the 80's ( thank God) back into the past.
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