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Thread #107420   Message #2237821
Posted By: PoppaGator
16-Jan-08 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Robert Johnson (animation) films at youtube
Subject: RE: Robert Johnson films at youtube
It took a few days, but I finally got around to following Lowden Jamewright's link, posted back on 07 Jan 08 - 01:45 PM, where he advises us:

If you want to pay homage to the great man via Youtube, you could do worse than learn how to play his music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4odyWzTmSM

(See above for the blue clickifier.)

I do most of my Mudcatting as a malingerer at work, where I have no speakers. At home in the evening, where my PC is multimedia-equipped, I don't always feel like sitting in front of a computer any more than I have to. But last night I spent hours viewing several great guitar lessons by one "deltabluestips," starting from part 3 of 4 of the "Four 'Til Late" tutorial to which the link brought me.

So, who is deltabluestips, who never shows his face in the videos, only his hands? Is it you, Lowden? Is it some other British Mudcatter? (I can tell by the voice/accent that he's no American; I'm no expert on UK regional speech patters, but I think the guy's a Liverpudlian.)

Anyway, this series of blues-guitar lessons (which seems to be still ongong) is a terrific resource. Thanks and praise to the instructor, who is a very good player and a truly excellent teacher, and whose work is a worthy homage to Robert Johnson as well as to the many nameless and forgotten artists who developed this music and handed it down to us.

An even more worthy homage, indeed, than the cute little animation that started this thread, and even than vidkid's labor of love, creating all those many videos out of still photos and vintage recordings. I don't object to either of those other YouTube efforts ~ I just find the lesson videos even more worthwhile.