The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30283   Message #388321
Posted By: GUEST
02-Feb-01 - 12:13 PM
Thread Name: Help: Types of Blues
Subject: RE: Help: Types of Blues
A new young cat, Dave Johnson, continues on in the Stratocaster tradition, but somewhat more conservatively than Stevie Ray. He plays more precisely - hard to describe, but the eight and sixteenth notes are more evenly spaced, if that helps - yet still retains a lot of intensity. Got to love a guy who wipes down the neck of his axe with WD-40 to increase speed, and uses a quarter for a plectrum. Little Dave and Big Love: sounds like roadhouse blues from a roadhouse band. Not too many slow songs, though (just one on the aforementioned disk actually gets down and dirty).