I just recorded a corker of a slow blues. I'd like to put it up here, but it's ludicrously difficult to attach a music file to a post on this site. I have both aif and MP3 format, but attaching either of those to this post is like applying for a visa to Belarus.
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Last Edited by jnorem on Jun 09, 2014 8:20 PM
Great stuff everybody. Thanks Bronzewailer. Nice work yourself too. You can't beat a bit of Junior Wells! His Hoodoo Man Blues album is just one of my all time favourites.
I don't know if this fits the definition of Blues technically but it is slow. I tried to put some I got no money and my wife is cheatn on me into it. I also recorded it in my car. (I did it in the parking lot before work, having a job isn't very bluesy is it?)
I have been listening to a lot of jazz and bluegrass as well as blues lately so some of that may have drifted in. I never know when an idea is original and when I am repeating something I heard somewhere before.
Last Edited by STME58 on Jun 10, 2014 10:23 AM
The vocals emulating the train whistle along with the harp really caught my attention and the rest of the song held my attention. I listened to "Lonesome Whistle Blues" several times. Very nice!
Here's my slow-blues contribution to the late night jams at the World Harmonica Festival last fall. My segments starts about 2:09. They cut away just as it starts to get good.
Here's another that may or may not qualify as slow blues. It's a one-chord tune on a B7 chord, played on a C chromatic. It's called Blue Chrome and I did a detailed breakdown of how I played it in an old Harmonicasessions article in 2008:
Here are some from the other day to a few years or so ago. All are using the 1 man band with real instruments-guitar, harp on rack, drums on my feet, keys, all word/music spontaneously created/recorded. Walter
here is a video showing what I invented back in the 80'- playing lead guitar and harp together.
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
