Old Harmony smoking the blues

[RJVB]

Came across this and remembered this guy is still one of my favourite players (in whose hands I usually don't mind an electric sound either):

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

Came across this and remembered this guy is still one of my favourite players (in whose hands I usually don't mind an electric sound either):

Great tune, tone and great playing! I wonder if he's coming through that Marshall stack or if there's a ratty old Deluxe hidden off camera

[RJVB]

He's probably the one who really got me interested in picking up a guitar, and my basic RH technique very much influenced by his tutorials and video courses I picked up before I could enroll in music school. (The left hand ... I can only dream ... he appears to have an enormous span too.)

The description says he plays through a "SquareAmps Vintage Radio Guitar Amp", which is probably the big brown thing behind the headstock.

No info on the PU, but it looks vintage too.

[RJVB]

Same guitar starting at about 37:00 in this livestream from last Feb:

(plus a few nice "roots" instruments)

[Doctor Jeff]

I’ve never seen , but he plays here in Omaha on occasion. He’s buddies with a local guy who builds cigar box guitars and has made quite a few for JJ.

Still hoping to catch Justin in action soon.

[ruger9]

Justin is a great player. Makes me want to play slide (I've tried over the years, but can't seem to get the hang of it)

[RJVB]

Still hoping to catch Justin in action soon.

I discovered him not long after he had played at CBG festival where I could have gone. Seems unlikely that opportunity will present itself again...

Makes me want to play slide (I've tried over the years, but can't seem to get the hang of it)

Who wouldn't...

(esp. on that guitar!)

Maybe you should try his course on standard tuning slide guitar playing? Of course with one of his signature slides

I listen less to him nowadays but I've very rarely caught him on a performance or arrangement that wasn't tasteful and effective. And for his recordings he often works with other (native-American) musicians I usually never heard of but are always great performers. Very impressed by singer (and apparently flutist) Bill Miller for instance:

[ruger9]

Maybe you should try his course on standard tuning slide guitar playing?

I've actually considered it! Maybe if I owned a resonator of some kind, I'd be more apt to play that style...

[RJVB]

Maybe if I owned a resonator of some kind, I'd be more apt to play that style...

As if you needed an excuse to buy one (they're fun!)

But that old Stromberg also sounds very nice with a slide, maybe you prefer an excuse to buy one of those?