Saturday, January 19th, 2008
In 2005 we lost one of the more interesting blues guitarist of this era. His 1998 album “Dirt Floor” does a brilliant job of describing his sound. Textured and simple, clean and dirty, brilliantly simple with the complexes creates brilliant story telling. Dislocated blues was started at Jeff Lang studio before his death and thankfully published by Rounder. Jeff Lang is a slide guitarist, but there balance is perfect between Chris guitar. Perfect cold weather blues.
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
More Surprises. At least that is what a long trip to Tanzania will bring out in a ipod. I have for some time been a fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan music. This is due mostly to the work he did with Michael Brook before his death. So, before I left I noticed that Gaudi (who I had never heard of before) had done a CD of Dub music with his sing over lad it. At first listen I was not very impressed by it, but I put it on my ipod for a future listen.
On the first night of my trip this CD was found and from that point on every night it became my sleeping music. To note this music is not for everyone. If you do not like the Qawwali chant sound one might feel like it sounds like someone crying, but I find some amazing emotion and peace in this type of music. Plus the mixture of Dub and Qawwali is a pleasant surprise.
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