New Bruce Molsky CD

Just bought Bruce Molsky's latest, Soon Be Time, and while I haven't listened in-depth yet, what I've heard is really great. If it weren't enough that he's a great fiddler and banjo player, and a fine singer, he's also a really skilled fingerpicking guitar player.

Which reminds me: When Poor Man's Troubles came out, I spent a lot of time figuring out Molsky's guitar arrangement of Henry Thomas's "Fishin' Blues." I actually ran out of steam after transcribing the opening instrumental verse. I keep meaning to come back to it & transcribe the whole thing but who knows when I'll get 'round to that. Anyway the instrumental part has most of what you need to play the verses. So it's here if anyone's interested.

And the new Molsky disc is in rotation along with a bunch of other good recent additions.

thanks for listening,

John

Back From Vacation

We are back from vacation now. Visited family, did a lot of fun stuff with the kids, and had a generally great time. The Sugar in the Gourd streams were down most of the time we were gone -- for some reason my home PC decided to reboot itself & didn't restart correctly. I was unable to resolve that remotely. So apologies for that, but the music is back online now.

Here's a short (silent) video of our son Will playing peek-a-boo in Florida. (It's not the highest quality -- was shot with my digital camera.) You can see a bit of a laughing Jake (our eldest) at the end.



Best wishes,

John

Slide Guitarist Who Uses His Mouth and a Teaspoon

Check out this great video of an African guitarist, apparently named Hannes Coetzee, who plays slide with a spoon held in his mouth. [direct link to the video: 6 MB, mpg format]

Not only is it a neat technique, I think it's a really great song. I must have watched this clip 50 times since I first saw it around a week ago via the Fretboard Journal blog. (FJ is a great new mag for stringed instrument enthusiasts -- check it out if you haven't done so.)


John

Update: here's another means of viewing, via ifilm.com: