Author: tymjar
Length: 06:19
The Blue Riders:Ben Andrews guitarsTim Jarvis drums and percussionHugh Feeley harmonicasThe 71 other session youtube clips are at... http://www.youtube.com/results... just say hi, at: http://www.myspace.com/timothy... over 20 years Ben has been playing the clubs & festivals along the Eastern seaboard of the USA. His picking on a variety of guitars ~ 12 string, Dobro, 6 string ~ is awesome!! He always gives a passionate display of virtuoso playing, whether it is the ragtime styles of Blind Blake or Willie McTell, the powerful driving rhythms of Huddie Ledbetter or the delicate slide of Mississippi John Hurt he just oozes authenticity. His rich voice perfectly compliments his playing. It is rare to get a combination of superb guitar, stunning vocals & natural swing but with Ben Andrews you get just that Ben also provides music scores for film, TV & radio. He has appeared at major festivals throughout the USA & Europe & has performed with many of the legends of blues including: - Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Brownie McGhee, John Hammond Jnr. and Robert Lockwood Jnr."From: www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Art st%20biogs%I guess that in the early 1970s there was no Blind Willie McTell estate for the Allman Brothers to have payed copyrights to anyway...somebody was singin' the blues.This song swung hard; bouncing along, playing the drums with the brushsticks was a ball. If you like this, check out Ben Andrews Blue Rider Trio doing some Robert Johnson / Kokomo Arnold, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Howlin' Wolf , Thomas A. Dorsey, Rev. Gary Davis, etc. If you like any of the harmonica or greats of country / folk blues artists, whether Mississippi Delta , Ragtime or Piedmont fingerstyle acoustic guitar: Henry "Mule" Townsend, Dr. Ross, Ramblin' Thomas, Sam Chatmon , Tampa Red, Scrapper Blackwell, Willie Doss, Doc Reese, Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Earl Hooker, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten, Jesse Fuller, Son House. If you like any of the country folk blues artists, whether Mississippi delta , or just fingerstyle acoustic guitar ... please give this a listen:Mr. McTell´s music encompasses ¨Eastern Seaboard/Piedmont, with lighter, bouncier rhythms and a ragtime influence; and Deep South, with its greater emphasis on intense rhythms and short, repeated music phrases¨A little history of the Virginia, Piedmont style:"In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and personality of African-American life. The style evolved from "rags," played with banjos, fiddles and percussion. As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues. Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it. The sound, because it was played with guitar and After World War II, the electric guitar began to replace the acoustic guitar, and the blues picked up an influence from the 1950 rock 'n roll."Alan Lomax , George Higgs and more at http://www.unctv.org/webcast/m... world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration of mine...David "Panama" Francis. I think Phish/Greatful Dead, Taj Mahal and Keb Mo listener might give this clip a listen.Cheers to THE 100 CLUB, London.Thanks to Thomson, Georgia for the Annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival and Bob Dylan, who memorialized him in a song.Blue Riders acoustic blues trio recorded in 1995Here´s a doff of the hat to Warner Williams and Jay SummerourThe Blue Riders recorded in Virginia, U.S.A., in 1995- tymjar