Rob Tognoni Band 1999 Stay At The Twilight

King Street BluesAlthough I make my living as an acoustic blues guitar participant, I’m fascinated by all nice finger picking guitarists and I at all times wished to learn to play Deep River Blues.

Sunday we took a journey into Memphis to do just a few caches and take a stroll down Beale Street. Beale Street was constructed on recollections – good and bad. It first rang out over the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. It migrated to the streets and golf equipment of Memphis. It went on to affect the sound of music all around the world. Memphis is the House of the Blues and the Birthplace of Rock ‘n Roll. And all of it starts here on Beale Road.

In earlier episodes you would have been forgiven for relating to Bruce Weitz’s ‘Belker’ as nothing more than a comic portrayal of a psychopathic ankle-biter. Similarly with Lt Howard Hunter performed by the vastly underrated James B. Sikking, who is initially seen as a clinically environment friendly SWAT commander with authoritarian, proper-wing tendencies descending into occasional buffoonery.

So perhaps a greater query is: What do you want? From Jelly Roll Morton to Lee Morgan, from James P. Johnson to John Zorn, the answer is out there, preserved on file for our studying and listening pleasure. Sure, experiencing all of the different styles of jazz is a frightening process, however the rewards are nice; and the extra you hear, the more you will find similarities within the kinds. What’s more, jazz …

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