Tried to dig out some of the blues that were influencing the English blues musicians (who included rock ‘n’ roll and R&B right along with the blues in their stylized recreation of the music of black Americans).įor some reason, Slim Harpo’s “I’m a King Bee” didn’t show up above, so here ’tis. But late in the century came the railroads and telegraph, not long after that records and radio, then TV, and the itinerant bluesmen and other musicians took their on the road and others heard it, but there was a time not all that long ago that place and sound were really interconnected, that slow-moving swamp sound reminds me of the steamy heat of southern Louisiana and Georgia.Īnd speaking of “looking back” that’s exactly what I suggested in my reply to your nice comment on Blues Roots. Many people never traveled away from where they were born and learned all their culture from their neighbors. Thank you, Kevin.īack in the century before last, before the internet-hard to imagine there was such a time, I know-back when it seems like we told the time by the length of the shadows and got our directions from the moss on the trees, all music was local and regional. The intro is from the studio version and I think the right way to play it. Wow, Roberto, thanks, I’m glad to hear that I’m putting it together in a way that makes you want to check it out. This is a cover of the great song Swamp music by the greatest band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Here are some great selections to start with, I hope you enjoy them and find them useful too! Roberto So again, I went back and found where I want to go.
and which urges the objects of its lesson to follow their own path in life. For those interested here is a link to learn a little more and I’m sure Don will chime in: īut it is the sounds and tones that make my remaining hair stand on end!! That slow heaviness I realized is the basis for the music I like most of the time, it’s baked into so many songs that we know…though the experts say it has fallen out of favor commercially, there is a revival of sorts with a thing called heavy swamp blues. 268 Swamp Songs traditional accompanying instruments of sitar.
#Swamp song lesson movie
Though I’ve heard swamp blues before, think the movie Black Snake Moan and many players, I really didn’t know that it had a separate history in the Blues. In one of those journies, I came across a playlist on youtube called swamp blues and heavy swamp blues. HI all, happy new lesson Friday! I want to start today by thanking Mr Don Deering for helping on my Blues journey of discovery, he forces me to look back before I can move forward to the guitarist I’d like to be….I have met people and sounds I never knew existed…Gracias Don!
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