Music: Your flavor of the month?

An older one I covered a while back

 

When Bobby passed I recorded this tribute

 

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Bravo !

 

Thanks! I've got 74 of these on my youtube channel now...started doing them for my grandson who likes to hear me sing when he's at home....turned into a more regular thing over the last year..I do them all live and unedited with the Iphone...want it to be like me singing for you in my living room rather than some fluffed up production.

 

^ Cozy stuff. I like your voice and guitar picking skills.

 

Thanks! My voice is fading in my old age but I've been plunking on guitars since 1961 when I was 7 years old...it's my oldest addiction..there's a lot more on my youtube channel

 

Riv, have you always been a "finger picker"?

 

Your voice sounds good still, but I listen to shit like this and enjoy that the guy singing it sounds like he just got shot in the throat so maybe I'm not the best judge. Surprised you don't have an obscure private press album from the 70s floating around online somewhere.

 

Sort of...I guess I started with fingerpicking...I've used picks but more and more often I've gone back to losing the pick. I feel more connected with fingerpicking than with picks. I like picks for percussive playing.

 

Hey I'm a Tom Waits fan so I like the grit and humanity in a vocal ..I wish I could sing like Ray Charles. I have recorded hundreds of songs that eventually I'll load on my channel but I never put any money into recording them...a lot were done simply on a 4 track and some are really complicated and have lots of tracks and layers. I'm just in a frame where I feel like picking up a guitar and singing a song, warts and all now and try to keep it open mike style. I need to put the studio recordings on a bandcamp site or something....

 

My fav guitarist, Jeff Beck became a finger picker a few years ago...and I think it actually made him even better...if that's possible.

 

Is finger picking a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not sure I want to know the answer.

 

On a stringed instrument ...great....on a scab...not so much!

 

Takes about an hour to feed little guy, so we've been playing a different record each feeding, flipping it when me and the wife switch bottle/breast duty. So far, I think my guys favorite album is Steve Miller Band Live. Excellent taste!

 

'Feed the babies, who don't have enough to to eat!'

 

First concert I saw when I returned from Vietnam was Steve Miller Band with Boz Skaggs, Humble Pie and Slade....wonderful show. Just dug out my Steve Miller band blues CD the other day.

 

Steve Miller Band and Steely Dan are top five bands in my book.

 

It's interesting that Boz Skaggs who started out with the Steve Miller Band has now been touring with Steely Dan for many years. Steely Dan to me is on my top 5 American bands