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Jag makes some really cool authentic 1920’s style guitar blues. This guy really cooks, and he’ll make an acoustic guitar make sounds you never thought it could.
From Magnatune:
“I got into blues after discovering Robert Johnson and RL Burnside in 1998. I had heard lots of blues over the years but the only artist I really liked was Stevie Ray Vaughan. My music sounds nothing like him however. I had put down my guitar for a few years after getting hooked on computers. I only played sporadically but I noticed that I was abscent mindedly playing old blues riffs.
I remembered that I had the Robert Johnson box set from the 30’s and I started listening to it, not really intending to learn that style. A co-worker at the time was listening to internet radio and one fo the stations played lots of old blues artists like Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell and of coure Robert Johnson. I was immediately hooked on the raw, funky style and investigated further.
Learning these songs by ear was difficult as many are tuned differently from traditional guitar tunings and many artists of that era used capos to change keys which made it almost impossible to figure out what the tunings were. Eventually I stumbled across a video of Bukka White playing what looked like open E tuning. I tried it and voila! I was playing Robert Johnson licks in no time.
I recorded my first 4 cd’s in a little less than 12 months, 3 more followed in quick succsession. ”
More from Jag (Three albums in all) at Magnatune.
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Not really about this track, but… what happened to track #139?
Better question–this post was added on May 22, it’s May 31–is this blog no longer being updated? I love the feed so much but hardly ever visit the site. I hope I didn’t miss anything but I hope more that this site will continue for the rest of the year.
I have been enjoying CC 365 ever since you started. I hope you are not burned out on it. I need more good music
Hi there, I hope you have not given up on this blog, I miss my daily fix. If you are out of music and need suggestions, say the word and I can send you some stuff. I hope others will too. I would love to see more great music.
Seconded, I love cc365 and really enjoyed starting my day with a fresh new cc licensed track. I hope to see it restart.
Dito. I really loved coming here and finding all this new music I had never heard before. I hope you’re okay, and that you’ll return to the internets that love you so much soon.
Grant. Hope you’re just taking a break. Looking forward to hearing much more from you. We all miss you & cc365.
And another ditto from me.
It would be a real shame to see this discontinued. I hope you’ll be back soon, it’s through sites like yours that I started discovering great new music - and hopefully much more of it
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