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Blues on the single row

Check out "C-Key Blues" at this link. I can play this on the single row, but its easier in one spot on a double row. I just have to reach farther for two notes on a single row.

Re: Blues on the single row

Beau Jocque did blues on the 1R box quite well. Played sparsely and tasty... then bellar'ed out that Beau Jocque growl... what an icon... what a loss.

R!CK

Re: Re: Blues on the single row

Yeah, Beau was great. He never came to CA, so I never got to see him play, which is a big regret on my part.

Can you refresh my memory as to what blues songs he played on the single row? I remember some he did on the triple row.

-David

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Danny Collet is one of the best blues players on a single row I've ever sat next to. We'd jam for ten min. at a time at our last restaurant gig just for fun and he always amazed me with the variety he'd come up with. In the right hands, a single row is a hell of a blues instrument. Just not my hands. Give me a fiddle any day.
Layne Z.

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I agree -- Beau did some great 3-row/5-row blues... I guess I recall the single-row stuff live -- BUT -- the one single-row tune that comes to mind that he recorded was "Going To The Country" on his [Check it out, lock it in, crank it up] disc. Sparse and so nicely executed.

I was really lucky to have gotten to know Beau a little. I had dinner with him and Shelley on the Rounder Records tour when he came through Dallas back in... '95, I believe. He was truly one of the nicest Louisiana artists I ever had the opportunity to meet. His drummer, Skeeter, is also one of coolest people in the world. After dinner, Skeeter, Chuckie, Steve Riley, Alan Greeley and I partied hard. Man what a night that was!

http://www.mosquitogumbo.com/pic_musicians_mamourollers.jpg

Yeah, I was about 60 lbs heavier and had a crappy mustache back then...

R!CK

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Hi Rick,

I forgot about that one - it's a good one all right. Pretty easy to play too. Even though it is quite a different style, it uses a lot of the same notes as "Richard's Club", which is one of Beau's tunes that I like to play.

I don't play slow blues very much, but I like the idea of adding this one to the repertoire for when requests come along.

-David



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