Blues Videos and Blues History

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:10 PM

He lived a long time. I like Tommy Johnson's stuff:
Tommy Johnson
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:14 PM

Tommy Johnson, BTW, is the one who was supposed to have made the deal with the devil... Not Robert...

Source: John Sinclair, blues historian extraordinare'...

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:18 PM

I think Floyd Jones copied Tommy. Modernized it.
Floyd Jones

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:23 PM

Better version?
Floyd Jones
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:34 PM

Floyd be the shits!!! I mean, down home shits!!!

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:49 PM

I was fiddlin' with a Strat at Guitar Center and looked up to see this gentleman standing over me. I'm a reserved person, or I would have talked to him.
He was well known here.
Frank Edwards
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 09:56 PM

Don't know this guy... He's purdy good... Lousy reso... I used to own the same one... It's a Johnson... Okay but lousy/okay....

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 10:20 PM

No bobette. That's a Dobro. I recognize the truss rod cover. I have a very similar model. His is sandblasted with a Hawaiian scene. Mine is floral engraved. You can just about see the Dobro decal on the headstock.
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 10:29 PM

Just like the Johnson I owned... They both look alike... The fact that it is that shiny tells me that it is a Johnson...

No mater...

b~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 11:21 PM

Probably so. Chinese copy everything. You might want to send copies of your CD's to WRFG and WREK here in Atlanta. They have blues programs and support the blues scene here. Get some extra exposure. Come down and play live in the studio. Do some gigs down here.

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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 11:35 PM

One of his tunes
Frank Edwards
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 05 Dec 12 - 11:41 PM

Another
Frank Edwards
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 05:56 PM

I might just do that, Krinkx...

I've done a couple radio shows over the years... They're fun... But seriously, unless I have a pay gig to cover my expenses to Atlanta then I doubt I'd do it... People just don't pay too much for old Mississippi blues players... Shoot, people don't pay much to most musicians...

Last decent pay I got was playing at the "Water Park" bar or the "Lodge" at Massanutten Ski Lodge... Played with a harmonica player and got $250 a night for 3 hours... These days I'd bet that folks are playing there for even less...

Ya'll got any blues challenges that pay decent for solo??? I've made money at a couple of them...

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 08:52 PM

I dunno. Blind Willie's is the club to get booked at. Bob Margolin plays there pretty often.
Blues aren't the big thing they were 20 years ago.
Are they?
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 09:04 PM

Bob Margolin gets all the bookings... He's part of the chosen few... It's a crap shoot...

There are 100s of folks that can play circles around Bob Margolin who can't get booked at the local coffee house to play for free...

That is the real world of music...

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 10:02 PM

Yea. Looks glitzy and glamourous. Scratch the surface......
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 10:15 PM

BTW, I'd take Bob M on in a blues challenge if the judges didn't know either our names and were just listening to our music... I'd beat him...

No brag, just fact...

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 11:14 PM

I believe you, bobette. He uses a thumbpick like a flatpick.
He was ok. But not great.
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Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 08:41 AM

Yeah, I played the Sedalia Blues Festival "blues challenge" about 7 or 8 years ago and he was the headliner and I was thinkin', "How'd he get to be the chosen one?"

As for using the thumbpick as a flatpick, hey, that's okay... I do, too, when the song calls for it... No big thing... Might of fact, with claw-hammer picking the thumb does what alot of country and blue-grass pickers do with a flat pick... There's no law saying that the thumb just has to plunk on two bass strings... Check out Son House's picking style sometime and see just how many strings he picks with his thumb...

B~

Subject: RE: Blues Videos and Blues History
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 08:59 AM

He pinches the thumbpick hard with his index finger.
I think he just uses a thumbpick because it's easier to hang onto.
He flatpicks with a thumbpick. No fingerpicking at all as far as I could see.
His little band was pretty good.
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