Jimmie Vaughan:The rhythm and blues of America

The New American ^ | 12-10-08 | Kelly Taylor Holt

[djsherin]

This is beyond refreshing coming from a musician.

[Revolting cat!]

Too many notes. These post-Hendrix guys tend to play too many notes. We used to call it “Japanese guitar”, I no longer remember why, but the point is that virtuosity in too-many-notes fast playing is boring and proves nothing. Long live Bo Diddley!

[Revolting cat!]

Check out the recent solo album by Jimmy Wilsey, who played on Chris Isaak’s first few albums, and really is responsible for Isaak’s success. No wasted notes.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Would have liked to see SRV do more acoustic work. Have noticed a few guitar players(Steve Stevens)have experimented with Flamenco. I know that’s pretty far outside of blues and/or rock, but it does showcase pure guitar technique/talent.

[erman]

I know that’s pretty far outside of blues and/or rock, but it does showcase pure guitar technique/talent.

I tend to think flat-pickers and some regular acoustic guitars with alternate tunings and a good ear for melody is what I like.

Flamenco is music... and if done well it's beautiful.

Here are a couple of examples of different guitarists using different techniques and tunings. Listen to the entire songs and notice the way they hook stuff together. Good musicians just amaze me.

Amazing technique by Tommy E making his guitar sound like a harp...!!

Fast and yet melodic

Nice and Mellow with harmonics...

a couple of goodies

a couple of goodies

[ChrisInAR]

Thank you!

The New Amer4ican is a fantastic magazine, written by REAL CONSERVATIVES....not the globalist Neo-Cons that currently make up & lead the GOP.

[djsherin]

I agree. It was to the detriment of the conservative movement that the pro-war democrats (i.e. neoconservatives) came to our side.

[ChrisInAR]

The problem is that they are NOT on our side....they are globalists who are seeking to destroy the sovereignty of the United States — little by little, one brick @ a time. They believe that the Constitution is a “living document” just like the Dims do, but the direction they wish to move our nation isn’t as far to the Left as the Dims would like us to go.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Thanks for the links. Interesting variety of styles there(to say the least). Guess I'm conservative not only in politics, but also music...so I enjoyed the 1st(and last)best. All very talented musicians though.

(The second gave me arthritis just watching it)

[cartoonistx]

I sang rock and roll for 25 years until I realized what I really liked about rock and roll was the blues! Now that’s what I sing. SRV was one of the Rossetta stones that brought this understanding to me and led me to the Blue Side. Jimmie’s style keeps me here!

[djsherin]

I should have put our side in quotes. The problem is now that they are considered right wing, they have gathered a significant crowd of people believe that neoconservatism is the best defense the right can use against liberalism. I think a lot of conservatives see that the president is a Republican and therefore, what he does MUST be defensible and defended, regardless of how far to the left we go.

[ChrisInAR]

I think Americans have fallen into the trap that President George Washington warned us about falling into in his Farewell Address: he told us to avoid what he called "The Spirit of Party", yet people these days look to see whether there is an (R) or a (D) by their names when they vote or say whether they like a politician's ideas.

In "The Naked Communist", Cleon Skousen listed 45 goals of the Communist Party & how it could be used to take over America, & a few of them included the following:

Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States;

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures;

Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

Do any of these sound familiar?

[erman]

(The second gave me arthritis just watching it)

You know what's funny? Is that with the internet, you could play each of those songs. There is tab for all the songs that I listed and programs that can actually take you through each individual note at variable speeds in order to learn the licks.

I joked with my wife if the internet had been around when I was a kid, I'd be broke and a guitar player.

If you want to hear a real interesting guy, go to Youtube and look up "Fretkiller". He's an amazing talent with voice and chops. The cool thing about this guy is that he never shows his face.

[RckyRaCoCo]

look up "Fretkiller"

I picked up on his version of Wichita Lineman last summer and have tried a few others. There are quite a few talented guitar players who show their wares on YouTube, there of course are others that, well, I wouldn't exactly broadcast...(heh)my guitar playing falls into that category.

[djsherin]

I remember seeing that list in high school and thinking how many of those goals we had adopted. What even scarier is how we’ve practically done everything on a list laid out by Marx in the Communist Manifesto: http://mises.org/story/177