Jamorama Blog » Little Richard http://www.jamorama.com/blog Learn to play music online fast! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:56:34 +0000 en hourly 1 Robin Trower http://www.jamorama.com/blog/robin-trower/ http://www.jamorama.com/blog/robin-trower/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 02:21:03 +0000 Jamorama http://jamorama.com/blog/?p=1273 Here`s English guitarist Robin Trower, formerly of Procul Harem, playing the title track from his 1974 classic rock album Bridge of Sighs. Robin plays his own signature stratocaster which is an EXACT version of the one you can buy through Fender, although, when playing live Robin tunes his guitar a full step down, to a DGCFAD tuning. Robin`s tone is achieved through playing into several Marshall heads at high, high volume. Hendrix comparisons have plagued Trowers work but anyone who knows their onions will notice that Hendrix` rhythmic legacy from his days playing with Curtis Knight and Little Richard for example is not present in the fluid legato and unhurried melodic content of Robin Trower`s playing.
You need to have a look at Freddie, B.B. and Albert King for that…
1990`s “In the Line of Fire” is a also a great later album.
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I previously wrote about unusual guitar practices and sometimes you`ve gotta have an unusual name just to back yourself up….Furry Lewis, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Blind Lemon, Pink Anderson & Little Pink, Keb` Mo, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Black Spider Dumpling, Hound Dog Taylor, Pine Top Smith, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Little Richard, Professor Longhair, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Smellfoot Johnson, Jake “The Snake” Edwards and the It Doesn`t Matters…..

These guys are the real cats….and Robert Johnson obviously don`t need no moniker….
I`ve written some rules about the blues over here just to help anybody get started with the blues.…

If you`d like to find the missing jigsaw piece in American musical history featuring African American; Cajun; European American; Anglo-American blues, folk country rarities here it is:

You can listen to the tracks here. This superb set features commercially recorded but hard to find and rare 78rpm songs by artists from Blind Lemon, to Blind Willie, Chubby Parker and Rabbit Brown.

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