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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grapelli and Reinhardt formed the quintet for Le Hot Club in 1934. Grapelli had just begun to make a name for himself as a solo musician. Django was already famous throughout Europe. A gypsy by birth, Django was the first great jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They...
Muddy Waters is at Paul's Mall with the John Wardwell Blues Band. Muddy Duddy is the King, the author of the blues. He has been playing slide guitar and singing for years and is bound to center his sets on standards like "I'm Ready" and "Hoochie Koochie...
...Hank Sr. himself was back there howling into the 24-track tape machine. Jennings also produced this album, and to him must be given credit for the lean, Austin-like sound--this is the first Hank Jr. album in which he has gotten away from Nashville's slick guitar tracks and banks of strings that work for the Ronny Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from Port Arthur to El Paso, and it must give him a kick to play a role of fatherly support for Hank...
...exactly the same thing," he says. "With the blues, the progression is a vehicle around which you tell a story, to convey a feeling using the guitar riffs and words--tell exactly what the meaning of the so. And it's exactly the same with punk. It's simplistic, but it has to be understood that it's only a vehicle around which the real meaning of the song...
Incagnoli takes up his the headpiece devil's trident, and progression. He then plays the same progression "punk-like," he bangs the strings with his pick, not so much as clawing at them with frenzy. Then he looks up from his guitar and of punk: "The way explicative of the energy behind the music...