Goodbye Ruth

Learn to play guitar by ear — like the blues legends did.

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Hey, welcome to the club. You tuned up? Let's play. →
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"If you play Blues right all the time, you're wrong." - Buddy Guy

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If you need a quick blues fix, drop the needle on BB's Live At The Regal. It'll put you right.

[Andrew @Dub__A]

Photos of Mississippi Delta bars in the 1980s from the photobook Juke Joint by Birney Imes

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Take care of your records

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Tom Wait's distinctive deep gravelly voice was described by critic as sounding as though "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car".

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“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Jimi Hendrix revolutionized electric guitar playing. He got his start playing a 1 string ukulele he found in a garage —learning to play it by ear. He would play along to Elvis Presley songs on the radio.

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“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” — Johann Sebastian Bach

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@deepfates https://t.co/amG2ca1RZz

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“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

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When Leonard Cohen was asked how he felt that Bob Dylan only took 15 minutes to write a hit song, Cohen said:

“That’s just the way the cards are dealt.”

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A deal with the devil:

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@quotidiania Just have to get out of your head and enjoy the ride. https://t.co/80vJ6IouET

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@PaulSkallas Very Lindy

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@quotidiania Do you have a local guitar teacher? I'd ask them to connect you with someone that is willing to jam together weekly. The sessions will motivate you to push through.

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@quotidiania 100% achievable. https://t.co/XjOW43WG5N

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"58 years old before I picked up a guitar... can't read, can't write, can't spell nothin' but I can play this guitar when I have to." – T-Model Ford

→ "You See Me Laughin': The Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen" #blues #bluesguitar #guitar #bluesmusic

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"The emotional reaction is all that matters... after all, I used to love music myself long before i could even identify a G minor 7th chord."

— John Coltrane

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@tishray Every aspect should weave together and fit in separate spaces, but bad lyrics can take me out of the flow of being able to listen to the song as a whole.

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I fell in love with the blues after randomly ending up here one night in Chicago. I paid cover for a bar seat but only needed the edge. The energy was electric. The music was raw. Real. It made me feel something. RIP.

[Johnny Burgin @burginjohnny]

Some of the best shows I saw there: Guitar Jr (w Sax Gordon), Jimmy Rogers, Pinetop Perkins, Eddie Shaw, Big AND Little Smokey Smothers, Jimmy Dawkins, Sunnyland Slim, Louis Meyers. I even met Big Moose Walker and had a nice chat. So long Blues on Halsted. @ChicagoBluesNet

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@sidewalkthougt Time to go back to vinyl https://t.co/O8N95NKd1R

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How to take care of your vinyl records: