All Blog Posts Tagged 'music' (19)

Well, after playing several open mic events and a couple of local festivals, I was asked to perform on the acoustic stage at a record companies launch night.

A few weeks later the owner of the company Robert Harrison of Long Haired Music in Spilsby, Lincolnshire saw me in Lincoln and asked if he could record my playing. This would be…

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Listen Now! ...new cd ...I'm A Bluesman

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/billyjonesbluez2

"This guy has what it takes ...the music oozes sexuality ...he is totally his own man with a show-stopping style!"…

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The rest of the songs from my abandoned LP are now available for free downloads. Showmen's Rest is the title. Three big numbers with everything you'd expect from U.G...low-pitched vocals!...meandering solos!...that dang ice bucket again!...

You've got options...either hit up the "Free Music" page at http://uncle-gus.com or get 'em at http://www.reverbnation.com/unclegus (all my other…

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Buy Now! ...new cd ...I'm A Bluesman.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/billyjonesbluez2…

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Last fall, I announced I was going to make my first full-length album and put it up for download at Bandcamp.com for the sum of one United States Dollar.

I got about two-thirds done with this digital record when our family suffered a loss (I wrote about it here back in January). I basically took a couple months off from writing and recording to recover.

This left me with seven completed tracks, and the original rush of energy lost to the ether. So I've decided to put those…

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The following song is in ABC music format and it should be cut and pasted into an ABC converter program like the "ABC Convert-A-Matic" on www.concertina.net. Once you submit your ABC file, the converter will produce a quick and dirty .jpg image of your musical score which is then displayed on screen. Above the music, in the center of the screen, you…

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The following song is in ABC music format and it should be cut and pasted into an ABC converter program like the "ABC Convert-A-Matic" on www.concertina.net. Once you submit your ABC file, the converter will produce a quick and dirty .jpg image of your musical score which is then displayed on screen. Above the music, in the center of the screen, you…

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The following song is in ABC music format and it should be cut and pasted into an ABC converter program like the "ABC Convert-A-Matic" on www.concertina.net. Once you submit your ABC file, the converter will produce a quick and dirty .jpg image of your musical score which is then displayed on screen. Above the music, in the center of the screen, you…

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The following song is in ABC music format and it should be cut and pasted into an ABC converter program like the "ABC Convert-A-Matic" on www.concertina.net. Once you submit your ABC file, the converter will produce a quick and dirty .jpg image of your musical score which is then displayed on screen. Above the music, in the center of the screen, you…

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The following song is in ABC music format and it should be cut and pasted into an ABC converter program like the "ABC Convert-A-Matic" on www.concertina.net. Once you submit your ABC file, the converter will produce a quick and dirty .jpg image of your musical score which is then displayed on screen. Above the music, in the center of the screen, you…

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Got another couple tunes finished and uploaded for your listening and downloading pleasure.

"Hot Corn Pone" is a harumphin', clankin' studio creation with two homemade guitars, bass, vocals and ice bucket percussion. The B-side, "Thievin' Blues," is a live track from the open mic I played a couple weeks ago. Some of the intonation may be a trifle approximate, but the energy of the room is pure fun.

Download both tracks absolutely free (Bad credit? No credit? No cash?…

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50060B88ED577BD4

...in the early 80's american bluesman Billy Jones was the lead guitarist for an outstanding group of touring musicians who called themselves 'The Incredible Rock City Band'. ...this song is taken from…

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 Just want to say that I really like Cigar Box Nation. I am an inexperienced builder and I've received allot of help from many different members. Everyone I've talked to wants to help and have good ideas. I have never built an instrument or even played one before and through finding this website I have a renewed interest in woodworking and a desire to learn how to play music. I just wanted to say thanks Nation for all your help. I am glad that I am apart of… Continue

Music has the power to transport us: to carry us to mysterious places and explore new worlds.



On Flood, Moreland & Arbuckle's debut release on Telarc International, a

division of Concord Music Group, the rootsy, hard-driving group from

Kansas takes music itself to places it's never been. Featuring mostly

original tunes, Flood presents a dynamic mix of thirteen

acoustic and electric songs, each performed with all the subtlety of a

passing… Continue

8 CD's of cigar box guitar blues n boogie: http://www.jagshouse.com/music/jagsolo.html

I had one heck of a day yesterday. I drove out to HWY 50 about 9:30am and took pictures of the Wagon Train going down the road then about 3 hours later Deb and I drove to the Strawberry Loadge for a day of music playing on my Cigar Box Guitars.The Travel Channel had a film crew filming the arrivel of the Wagon Train at the lodge. When they saw me playing my Cigar Box Guitar they just had to start filming me. Wow I never new how many wires and things they used while doing a shoot. We spent the… Continue

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Jimmy Valentine is from Chicago, he got his first music lesson at the age of seven years old from rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. When he was was 13 years old he got a couple intense music theory lessons from jazz legend Maynord Fergeson. Jimmy also studied music with legendary Chicago saxaphonist Ivan Lasso. Lucky to have grown up in studios and theaters in Chicago, where he got to learn music from many legendary and world class artists. Jimmy records his music spot on live first… Continue

OK, so I've been using a lot of found object - or junk - musical instruments to support my cigar box guitars recently. (You can hear examples of this on my page at Cigarbox Nation.)

So, I went looking for other junk music out there... found stuff like this - a…

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