Share Some Music "Finds" On YouTube

[wacojoe]

Time for some more Jesse Cook guitar magic, don't you think?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4lpcS_AsCU

Jesse usually plays a flamenco guitar, but I love the much more resonant tone of the classical guitar he chose on this video.

[Dave Grubb]

Ironic---as I read this Jesse Cook is on my cloud player---currently Azul

[Truckman]

For my money, John Lee Hooker, was the top of the blues ladder.

Just another reason to mourn the loss of my music collection......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

While we are on John Lee Hooker we may as well bring these in---more than anyone I can think of Mr Hooker conveyed an indelible stamp of "I've been there".

Bad Like Jesse James

and maybe his classic signature, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

[Wannabe]

Can we make time for one more John Lee Hooker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-FoZt95D4

[wacojoe]

Here's another nuevo flamenco artist, Al Marconi, who is somewhat obscure, as he refuses to play the game. He is a oneman band. His recordings are studio affairs in which he lays down all the tracks and puts them together himself, I read somewhere. Pretty amazing when you hear the song below.

If you want an album, ou have to go to his site because he apparently refuses to split the proceeds with any middlemen. As I say, he refuses to play the game. I think you will agree that he has talent though.

"Nomad"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oymEZzEXHvQ

As Marconi posted his song himself on YouTube, it looks like he is pretty adept at the art work too.

[Truckman]

Can we make time for one more John Lee Hooker?

Always......Ben

[Truckman]

My favorite band of long-haired, drug-crazed, maggot-infested Brits took much of their early influence from John Lee......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

While talking guitars we have to include Andre Segovia.

[Truckman]

More favorites from my barracks days...(Was it really 50 years ago?)......Ben

[Wannabe]

This one is for Dan. This guy is from Aust. and makes the music up as he goes (so they claim). In this video he is playing Boogie Woogie.
Bob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxs8To6pbdY

[Truckman]

Here's one I had never heard before from the late, great Johnny Horton...The cheesecake is just a bonus......Ben

[Wannabe]

Thanks Ben. I do not remember hearing that one before. Did some Sweet Young Thing steal Dan away? Don't remember hearing anything from him in a bit.
Bob

[Truckman]

Did some Sweet Young Thing steal Dan away?

Dan's taking a little break...We all need one occasionally...Enjoy the fresh air while you can......Ben

[wacojoe]

While talking guitars we have to include Andre Segovia.

I've hesitated commenting on this great selection because Ben thinks I get too "high brow," and sometimes I recognize I let my passions get the best of me. But, as it relates to Segovia and Asturias (Leyenda), passion does not describe my feelings.

The video above was performed late in Segovia's life when he was advanced in age. It is part of a documentary on his life, which I first bought as Laser Disc. I also have it in DVD. In this performance he plays the song in a slow tempo, perhaps because of his age, although I never read an explanation. It is amazing those hammy hands could be the author of such subtlety. Segovia transcribed Isaac Albéniz' piano piece in the early 1920's and first recorded it in 1951. It was that recording that I bought in 1959, which convinced me I should become a classical guitarist, and when it became apparent that I would never be able to play the piece decently, should give up the quest for lack of talent. In that early recording, he plays Asturias briskly but with wonderful feeling using modulation/dynamics and dwelling on certain notes to great effect. His tremolos (the rapid repetitive single note) is like a machine — so hard to do perfectly. I have heard many stunning guitarists play this piece (it is a standard of all classical guitarists, usually Segovia's transcription), and none come close to this recording. I consider this recording to be my personal choice as the most perfect musical recording ever made, if there can be such a thing, and be aware it was made without any splicing & dicing at that time. One complete take. For all intents and purposes, Andres Segovia invented the genre of classical guitar performer, and it is doubtful anyone will reach his level again.

The YouTube sample of that 1951 recording below is obviously from someone's old worn vinyl, but there have been digitized versions released complete with the background tape or wire noise indicative of the era.

The 1951 version —

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl1qZRTcOM

Thank you, YouTube.

The piano original —

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDTf6QnL24