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Post by GnLguy on Mar 5, 2014 21:48:08 GMT -6
What a line up! They were jamming on the Allman Brothers' tune Southbound , written by Dickey, from the Brothers & Sisters album. Even Willie threw in some good licks on his beat up Martin classical guitar
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2014 15:13:36 GMT -6
Thanks for the post. Some observant person could probably calculate the year of this video by the size of the hole in Willy's guitar (or by Betts' haircut). I was never a big Dickey Betts fan, but recently I've grown to appreciate his playing. I guess I was always drawn to the darker sounds and he tends to play in the happier sounding pentatonic major scale. Phil
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Post by GnLguy on Mar 6, 2014 17:28:21 GMT -6
Thanks for the post. Some observant person could probably calculate the year of this video by the size of the hole in Willy's guitar (or by Betts' haircut). I was never a big Dickey Betts fan, but recently I've grown to appreciate his playing. I guess I was always drawn to the darker sounds and he tends to play in the happier sounding pentatonic major scale. Phil Fair warning: the more that you listen to Betts, the more that you be drawn into his playing. In the original line up, he was overshadowed by Duane's playing, and rightfully so. Duane was an amazing player and I have to keep reminding myself that he was only 24 when he was killed. His playing is so melodic and yeah, he does play more of a major sound but he has written some great instrumentals and laid down some of the greatest harmony lines in rock & blues history.
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Post by Phil on Mar 7, 2014 14:47:53 GMT -6
Fair warning: the more that you listen to Betts, the more that you be drawn into his playing. In the original line up, he was overshadowed by Duane's playing, and rightfully so. Duane was an amazing player and I have to keep reminding myself that he was only 24 when he was killed. His playing is so melodic and yeah, he does play more of a major sound but he has written some great instrumentals and laid down some of the greatest harmony lines in rock & blues history.
As Duane Allman supposedly once said, "I'm the famous one, Dickey's the good one." Phil
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Post by grampalerxst on Mar 7, 2014 18:55:22 GMT -6
Speaking of guys named Nelson ...
I went down to one of our local watering holes one Wednesday evening a couple years ago to meet some friends to celebrate one of the gang's birthday. They had a pretty interesting band playing there, that played a couple really energetic sets of about 2/3's blues. In between sets while the rest of the band took a break, the front man played solo with an acoustic guitar and performed Willie Nelson tunes. I remarked to someone that man, this dud's got the Willie Nelson thing down cold. She laughed and said, "Well, seeing as that's Willie Nelson's son, it's not too big of a surprise!"
Another happy surprise bluesy band I ran across "by accident" is the North Mississippi Allstars. Neither of these vids does justice to these guys as live performers. NMA especially has a lot out there on Youtube, and several records out. Two of the three guys are brothers. Apparently their late father was a musician of some significant notoriety (maybe connected to New Orleans), but the details escape me.
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