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Post by t-bob on Dec 30, 2017 16:59:11 GMT -5
She's amazing. I'm sure a lot soundholians know this musician..... she is a star
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Post by patrick on Dec 30, 2017 18:49:12 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Dec 30, 2017 20:41:49 GMT -5
A Robert Johnson number played on a megabuck Petros guitar.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 21:20:33 GMT -5
Under 25, uses a slide, and plays Robert Johnson. That is goodness right there.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 30, 2017 21:43:13 GMT -5
A Robert Johnson number played on a megabuck Petros guitar. I wonder if she didn't get an endorsement deal -- both she and Bruce Petros are Wisconsin-based. A solidly fingerstyle-type guitar seems a bit odd, tone-wise, for that style of music, but she sure pulls it off. |
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Post by millring on Dec 31, 2017 6:41:53 GMT -5
A Robert Johnson number played on a megabuck Petros guitar. I wonder if she didn't get an endorsement deal -- both she and Bruce Petros are Wisconsin-based. A solidly fingerstyle-type guitar seems a bit odd, tone-wise, for that style of music, but she sure pulls it off. That would seem like a very reasonable explanation. The only other Petros player I know is the equally Wisconsinish LJ Booth. (and yes the Macyn Taylor video is excellent) |
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Post by drlj on Dec 31, 2017 8:31:33 GMT -5
Xtra cool.
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Post by theevan on Dec 31, 2017 8:36:32 GMT -5
Nice dog, Bruce.
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Post by Tamarack on Dec 31, 2017 8:57:27 GMT -5
A wonderful musician. Seems to be part of a band of Kottke acolytes centered around University of Wisconsin - Madison -- but with her own unique style and creativity.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 11:01:56 GMT -5
She's a great guitar player, but watching and listening to her put me in mind of these simple rules about playing the blues...
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes... sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch—ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and company motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cause you were skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chompin' on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. Highway
b. Jailhouse
c. An empty bed
d. Bottom of a whiskey glass
11. Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom's
b. Gallery openings
c. Ivy league institutions
d. Golf courses
12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
13. You have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You older than dirt
b. You blind
c. You shot a man in Memphis
d. You can't be satisfied
14. You don't have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You have all your teeth
b. You were once blind but now can see
c. The man in Memphis lived
d. You have a pension fund
15. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
16. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
17. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. Cheap wine
b. Whiskey or bourbon
c. Muddy water
d. Nasty black coffee
18. The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast
19. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broke-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.
20. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
21. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
22. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Debbie, Macyn, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
23. Make your own Blues name Starter Kit: a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.) b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Melon, Kiwi, etc.) c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.) For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Jackleg Lemon Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")
24. I don't care how tragic your life: if you own even one computer, you cannot sing the blues.
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Post by millring on Dec 31, 2017 11:13:10 GMT -5
The spelling is wyrd.
Signed,
myllryng
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 31, 2017 13:57:41 GMT -5
This is the Macyn Taylor I love, she plays lots of Chet, Merle and Tommy stuff. She also majored in guitar in community college.
There's plenty more on youtube. Check 'em out. Her father bought her the first couple Petros guitars.
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Post by drlj on Dec 31, 2017 14:05:09 GMT -5
We did that Blues name thing on the old AG forum.
That was how we got Kiwi Nixon who was very cool and nice and has drifted off into obscurity. I don’t recall her real name but Millring and I met her at Front Porch Music many years ago for an afternoon of guitar playing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 12:27:54 GMT -5
My most recent blues-name-generator experience named me Slowhand Didley McCoy.
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Post by Marty on Jan 1, 2018 12:43:12 GMT -5
The Blues ain't supposed to sound pretty. She needs to get rid of that big toned, bright, pretty sounding Petros and play that on one of my Harmony's. Then she will be doing Robert Johnson proper homage.
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Post by Marty on Jan 1, 2018 12:47:00 GMT -5
My most recent blues-name-generator experience named me Slowhand Didley McCoy. Mine is Jailhouse Dog Jefferson.  |
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Post by millring on Jan 1, 2018 12:50:53 GMT -5
 Jailhouse Dog Jefferson |
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Post by Marty on Jan 1, 2018 13:34:42 GMT -5
Jailhouse Dog Jefferson Too cute, should be more like this.  |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 1, 2018 14:11:13 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 1, 2018 14:33:08 GMT -5
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