To inspire (hopefully) more playing: 2 blues choruses

[pamosmusic]

I don’t trust a guitar player who didn’t start out learning licks from one of the Kings.

(Any of the three Kings are acceptable)

[John A.]

I don’t trust a guitar player who didn’t start out learning licks from one of the Kings.

(Any of the three Kings are acceptable)

There are four.

[DawgBone]

There are four.

Who is the 4th?

Little Jimmy King?

Earl King?

Little Freddie King?

Eddie King?

There are quite a few blues guys who use King in their last name if you go on a deep dive.

[joe2758]

"Who is the 4th?"

I don’t trust a guitar player who didn’t start out learning licks from one of the Kings.

(Any of the three Kings are acceptable)

ikr? so underrated

[John A.]

Here’s a couple of quickies

[John A.]

"Who is the 4th?"

ikr? so underrated

Earl.

[John A.]

Who is the 4th?

Little Jimmy King?

Earl King?

Little Freddie King?

Eddie King?

There are quite a few blues guys who use King in their last name if you go on a deep dive.

Earl was my pick for # 4. True, there are many more. But I’ll stop there.

[DawgBone]

Earl.

That was the first old school blues player I ever saw live. 1993 at the Duluth Bayfront Blues fest. I believe Down Right Tight w/Big John Dickerson (RIP Big John) was on before him. I was greatly influenced by the very loud, intense blues of the era. Blues fests now are like watered down crap by comparison. No more stacks of speakers, just little line arrays so as not to offend too many ears.

[James W]

Key of the day is B, so it’s in B.

Don’t do a tap tempo at the beginning and a tap tempo at the end. Don’t do it.

Pffft. How many choruses was that?

Nice playing though. Gotta cop me some of that.

[joe2758]

Pffft. How many choruses was that?

Nice playing though. Gotta cop me some of that.

yeah sure if you want to play in B

[DawgBone]

yeah sure if you want to play in B

I play blues in B all the time. It's one of my favorite keys tbh. Well, technically it's concert Bb since I tune a half step down but I am well acquainted with the B position.

[James W]

yeah sure if you want to play in B

[joe2758]

I thought yall would have figured out to not take anything I say seriously by now

[DawgBone]

I thought yall would have figured out to not take anything I say seriously by now

There are only a couple subjects I won't make jokes about and blues is one of them. You had me fired up earlier, LOL.

[pamosmusic]

Pffft. How many choruses was that?

Nice playing though. Gotta cop me some of that.

It was two minutes instead of two choruses. Poh tay toe, poh tah toe

[John A.]

That was the first old school blues player I ever saw live. 1993 at the Duluth Bayfront Blues fest. I believe Down Right Tight w/Big John Dickerson (RIP Big John) was on before him. I was greatly influenced by the very loud, intense blues of the era. Blues fests now are like watered down crap by comparison. No more stacks of speakers, just little line arrays so as not to offend too many ears.

I never saw Earl, but I’ve heard a bunch of live stuff. He was great. Even though (obviously) he’s not as well known as BB, Albert, and Freddie now, he was a big deal to the 60s generation of blues rock players (arguably Hendrix’s biggest influence), so worth a mention.

When I started getting into blues in high school ca. 78-80 I got to see a bunch of the real classic electric blues guys. IIRC first Buddy Guy, then a quadruple bill of BB, Muddy, James Cotton and Johnny Winter. I also saw Otis Rush, Eddie Kirkland, and some more old school players like Brownie McGee, Johnny Shines, and Robert Jr. Lockwood. All very formative.

[DawgBone]

I never saw Earl, but I’ve heard a bunch of live stuff. He was great. Even though (obviously) he’s not as well known as BB, Albert, and Freddie now, he was a big deal to the 60s generation of blues rock players (arguably Hendrix’s biggest influence), so worth a mention.

When I started getting into blues in high school ca. 78-80 I got to see a bunch of the real classic electric blues guys. IIRC first Buddy Guy, then a quadruple bill of BB, Muddy, James Cotton and Johnny Winter. I also saw Otis Rush, Eddie Kirkland, and some more old school players like Brownie McGee, Johnny Shines, and Robert Jr. Lockwood. All very formative.

It shows in your blues playing. Wildfire disappearin' jersey blues was excellent.

Earl King put on an awesome show. Unfortunately I was too late to the game or just too broke to see many of the other greats other than BB King and Buddy Guy a couple times each. I did see Lucky Peterson a couple times and even jammed with him one night in FL since his father retired to the St. Petersburg area and Lucky would occasionally drop by the Mahuffer's jam where his dad hung out all the time. Lucky at the top of his game was as good as anyone.

[pamosmusic]

yeah sure if you want to play in B

You need to toughen up young man

[mr. beaumont]

Went for Bb a la Ed Bickert today.

[joe2758]

You need to toughen up young man

whatever i'm going to my room

[John A.]

It shows in your blues playing. Wildfire disappearin' jersey blues was excellent.

Thanks

IEarl King put on an awesome show. Unfortunately I was too late to the game or just too broke to see many of the other greats other than BB King and Buddy Guy a couple times each. I did see Lucky Peterson a couple times and even jammed with him one night in FL since his father retired to the St. Petersburg area and Lucky would occasionally drop by the Mahuffer's jam where his dad hung out all the time. Lucky at the top of his game was as good as anyone.

I was lucky at the time to live someplace where there were a lot of venues for this kind of music (as well as for jazz) that were not very expensive and let teenagers in the door). Now, it's very much the opposite of that.

[pamosmusic]

whatever i'm going to my room

Don't you walk away from me

[pauln]

It shows in your blues playing. Wildfire disappearin' jersey blues was excellent.

Sure was; real nice!

[ragman1]

Solo in Cm.