Monday Blues

[BluesKing777]

Rainy Monday morning mid winter here, so played some Monday Blues!

 

If I take my J45 to the Blues Club in my new Hiscox case, I would open with this track I just recorded:

 

 

 

 

https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/mondayblues777

 

 

 

 

BluesKing777.

[vacamartin]

Rainy Monday morning mid winter here, so played some Monday Blues!

 

If I take my J45 to the Blues Club in my new Hiscox case, I would open with this track I just recorded:

 

 

 

 

https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/mondayblues777

 

 

 

 

BluesKing777.

 

 

 

Still Sunday Here.....sounding good Mr Hiscox promoter

[MissouriPicker]

You are one of the people on this forum that I am truly jealous of. Your guitar playing is superb, excellent, top shelf, and so on. Very, very good, my friend. [thumbup]

[BluesKing777]

Thanks very much!

 

I was fiddling with the sort of riffs I played in the recording only yesterday and was thinking of recording it, but it was a great looking sunny Sunday afternoon so went out in it.

 

But then Monday morning made it clear what to do!

 

Monday afternoon here now..... And most of the things I didn't want to do, are almost done!

 

 

BluesKing777.

[flatbaroque]

I love the languid feel of this.It reminds me somehow of some old Decca blues compilation album I've got somewhere called Raw Blues.I think maybe Pete Green was doing something like this.Excellent [thumbup]

[Murph]

Since I'm getting ready for WORK, I can appreciate this more than SOME people........

 

[jdd707]

BK,

 

Your blues are great on Monday or any other day of the week!

 

 

 

[BluesKing777]

Thanks FB, Murph and JDD for the replies!

 

 

I played that, did I? Must have been busy Monday morninarizing.

 

 

I don't really like analysing what I did, apart from playing the blues on acoustic guitar, but if anyone is interested in having a go at the style, I was playing fingerpicked blues chords fragments mainly - to give it the outline of the tune for singing the verses - and then adding fingerpicked lead guitar notes ala Lightnin Hopkins, Lonnie Johnson and a host of other players....all with the aim of stretching the tune out without playing the same chords over too much.

 

 

Start at the top - Too fantastic teachers of this style are Ernie Hawkins and Toby Walker:

 

 

Ernie from Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop:

 

http://www.guitarvideos.com/Products/Instructors/ernie-hawkins1/the-guitar-of-lightnin-hopkins#.V5_rQPl97X4

 

 

Toby from Homespun Videos:

 

https://www.homespun.com/shop/product/blues-fingerpicking-freedom-dvd-one/

 

 

 

BluesKing777.