We've moved up from a spot just over 200 to, now, 169th place. Inching up! Thanks for all your support.
Let's be honest: it's a crazy long shot. Surely a young gunslinger with major label promise is what they're looking for. Our best play doesn't come from that direction at all, but from the exact opposite direction: Mr. Satan as a kind of John Lee Hooker anchor-it-in-the-deep-blues figure, a guy who DID, by any measure, belong center stage 15 years ago, and who is now being honored for that.
Plus the devil/Satan/crossroads angle--for real, rather than as myth. How many bluesmen in the long history of the blues have actually declared "I AM Satan!" Not too many.
So choosing us offers the festival a weird kind of branding/authenticating dynamic.
Maybe I'm the only one who sees the weird logic of it all, but if we make it into the Top 100, I believe we have an entirely legitimate chance at making whatever passes for their finalist round, even if we end up not getting picked. And if you make it into the final round of consideration--the behind-closed-doors round--there's always the chance of an add-on thing, a guest spot, something like that.
Edited to add: I keep discovering subtleties of the rules--such as the fact that all music we upload (if not videos) must consist of original compositions. So I've pulled down my "Crossroads Blues" cut and put up "I Want You" and "Thunky Fing Rides Again," along with "Listen to the Music."
I've kept the same videos up, though.
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i think you are being shorted i go to the site play a track click off come back play a track again it does not seem to count each and every time big boss man should have a hundred hits easy
i just think it's a stretch to say clapton is not a fan of harmonica he played with john mayall kim wilson carey bell muddy waters howling wolf bob dylan if he sites little walter i mean.... you either like little walter or you dont he is an acquired taste
1847: I'm afraid that I've had to take down Big Boss Man. It's not an original song, and the rules stipulate original songs.
So what I've done is give away the best of our original compositions:
Listen to the Music Thunky Fing Rides Again I Want You Tell the World I Do Lotto 54
Only "I Want You" is a straight up blues, but if original compositions is the rule, it's the rule.
As for plays: I suspect that you need to sign in through a different browser for each play, or maybe even on a different IPO. I don't know. Just suspect.
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you low down hound! i just sat down with my c harp i planned on "appropriating' some of your riffs their are some very choice passages you have on there what record was that from? i may have it here "somewhere" i have living on the river and one other i'll have to dig.
1847, you can purchase that cut for 99 cents on iTunes or Amazon. If I remember correctly, I used a C harp, yes.
JD, I completely agree with you that S&A are NOT typical of the sort of things that Clapton has supported. But, on the other hand, he has shown for a long time that he has a fervent love for the music of Robert Johnson. Any argument for why the festival would make space for Magee and Gussow would have to be made on the grounds I make above: burying the festival deep in Mr. Satan's griot-like presence and Mississippi ancestry, as well as my own original (I hope) contemporary take on "Crossroads Blues," where I clearly appropriate Clapton's guitar riff from the live Cream days. You have to squint real, real hard to see our pathway to 270 electoral votes, but the pathway is there. Barely.
He was a real @sshole - "spit in the face" of so many people that showed him kindness and helped him on his way up. I like him a lot less after reading this. He did have addiction problems that helped contribute to his making consistently bad decisions. The only plus is that he is going on 20 years sober and is much nicer now.
He did mention his influences and sited Little Walter more than once. However, it is obvious that he doesn't really embrace harmonica that much in his music. When he was doing his tribute to the old blues guys, he did use Jerry on harmonica - in concerts and recordings. Aside from the tribute stuff, his original music doesn't include any harmonica, so that must be where his head's at.
BB King isn't much of a harmonica fan, either.
To each his own.
If Adam doesn't win, but makes it to the finals, who knows what doors may open in other directions. Lotsa guys get breaks not by winning, but by showing up on someone's radar along the way. ---------- The Iceman
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one last time before i go to sleep i tried an old email address that went thru i used my bosses email address he voted for you also, he just doesn't know it
their must be email addresses in my spam folder i could use how much time do we have left to increase the "buzz' factor?
