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Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Blues Gig
For the past I don't know how many years, I've been focused on the blues. Learning it, playing it, writing it, listening to it, anything I can get. It hasn't been an exclusive thing. There have always been other forms of music I have enjoyed. But underneath it all, has been the blues. Whatever else I was doing, I always wanted to get back to the blues. The top of my list in previous posts of bands or artists I wanted to play with were, you guessed it, blues artists.
Lately, I've been feeling something else. Donny Hathaway. Stevie Wonder. Hall & Oates. Diane Birch. Hitsville USA. Soulsville USA. Even Kenneth Scott. I've been feeling a whole different soul thing lately. Not that most of this stuff is new to me, but I've just been getting into it a lot more. I don't think there's any reason, it's just one of those things.
That's not to say I don't love the blues. Nor does it mean I don't want to play the blues anymore. It might just be because this is great music, and since I've been playing these kinds of gigs, I've been getting into it. You may have noticed, I can be a bit single-minded about things. That may be all this is.
Or maybe, I'm subconsciously trying to justify buying a real Wurlitzer electric piano.
Posted 2009 12 20 at 12:58 PM
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