Welcome my friends to crazy times here in NYC. Unless you literally live in a cave you’ve heard of the fun times we’re having here with Covid-19. Personally, I haven’t felt much of a change in my daily routine. Being…
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“Bring Out Your Dead” . . : Resources For The Quarantined Deadhead
Tagged with: Grateful Dead, Quarantined Deadhead
Posted in Grateful Dead, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“If You Get Confused Just Listen To The Music Play” . . : A Video Asks, “Was Jerry Garcia a Jazz Improviser?”
As a musician and as a Deadhead, I have had on more than one occasion a conversation with non-Deadhead musicians who dismiss Jerry Garcia as someone who just plays scales up and down, someone who “noodles”. This pisses off Deadhead…
Tagged with: Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jazz Theory, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia and Ruben Blades
Posted in Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis, Music Theory
Posted in Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis, Music Theory
“Don’t You Let That Deal Go Down” . . . : Learn Jerry Garcia’s Solo From Deal (7/4/89 Buffalo)
I had lunch the other day with my old friend Errol. Errol is an excellent guitarist and we have been in bands together on and off for about forty years. Errol is currently in an excellent Jam band based in…
Tagged with: 'Grateful Dead Guitar Lesson', Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis, Music Theory
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis, Music Theory
“What’s That Song With The Cello? . . . : J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude in G Major
I’ve previously written of how the New York Public Library provided a invaluable resource in my early music self education (https://roymusicusa.com/2017/01/13/blues-for-new-orleans-duke-ellington-the-new-york-public-library-and-me/), Pre-internet, it was the only way I would get to hear musicians and pieces of music that I read…
Tagged with: Ana Vidovic, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Classical Guitar, J.S. Bach
Posted in Classical, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classical, Music Appreciation and Analysis
A Blast From My Past: CPY at the Lone Star Roadhouse
I had a birthday not to long ago so I thought it would be appropriate to dig out something from the digital archives. In the late Eighties through the mid Nineties I played bass in a number of projects with…
“The Bear Got You” . . . : Steely Dan and The Lost Gaucho
Gaucho was the album that (for a time at least) broke Steely Dan. Recording began in 1978 and over the course of a two year span, the band used at least 42 different musicians, spent over a year in the…
Tagged with: Aja, Gacho, Lost Gaucho album, MCA, Second Arrangment, Steely Dan, Warner Brothers
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
A Haiku For The Holidays 2019
A Song For Those Here And For All Those Who Are Not Let Us Play For All
Tagged with: bluegrass, Country Music, Jamband, The New Jazz Spasms, Wil The Circle Be Unbroken
Posted in Country/Bluegrass, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Country/Bluegrass, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“I’m Verklempt”* . . . . : Blue Sky by Quail
Full disclosure: I’ve known Anna Young (bassist, composer, arranger and all around awesomeness) and her brother Nick Young (mixing and mastering – sonic and otherwise) literally their entire lives. So it is with the greatest of pleasures that I present…
Tagged with: Amy Winehouse, Anna Young, Nicky Young, Quail, Quailtrail
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Embryonic Journey” . . . : Three Guitar Instrumentals By Jorma Kaukonen
My previous post talked about John Fahey, Leo Kottke and the “school” of acoustic fingerstyle guitarists who created an amalgam of folk, blues and country guitar styles, sometimes mixed with jazz, Indian raga and other world music elements. Wikipedia referred…
“Like geese farts on a muggy day”: Leo Kottke’s “6- and 12-String Guitar”
Sometime in the early seventies I began reading in Guitar Player magazine about a group of acoustic guitarists. Their music drew upon the traditions of folk, ragtime and blues but often would also incorporate other elements such as Indian raga.…
Tagged with: Acoustic Guitars, Figerstyle Guitar, Fingerpicking, Folk Music, John Fahey, Leo Kotte
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
ManRoy Music 