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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on November 29, 2017 at 4:37am

Cool lesson Shane! Good rant too. Many of us have the sloppy part down - still working on the awesome.

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Permalink Reply by Ernest Gusella on November 29, 2017 at 10:06am

GRRRREAT LESSONS by Shane on someone who to my mind is the 3rd greatest blues player ever i.e. #1 Charlie Patton, who most people believe really got the blues going #2 Robert Johnson, who confused and dazzled everyone by absorbing everything that Charlie Patton had to teach #3 Muddy Waters, who sucked up all of that steaming, turbulent Mississippi delta atmosphere like a vacuum cleaner #4 Jimi Hendrix, who took the blues to other worlds in the psychedelic age.  

If you don't know how great Muddy is, you don't know shit! Most of the players today are all about flash with no balls. Shane's enthusiasm is justified in spades. He nails it on these lessons. I saw Muddy a couple of times back in the late '60's at the original Filmore in the Filmore black district of San Francisco, and then again in the garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before he died. Muddy is a primal GOD who took the power and roots and pain of Mississippi Delta music; electrified it, and turned into big city VOODOO that speaks to anyone who has a soul at all. You can hear AFRICA in his music- where mankind began.  Muddy was too spooky for words. Wonderful lessons Shane!  Keep 'em coming'!  I cannot say this enough.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Lauten on May 13, 2018 at 5:41am

Oh man, which song is this? I know I know it...I THINK I know it....

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