Any traveling musicians out there? If you are like me, you have at one point you have taken off your strings, packed the case with spare clothes, and crossed your fingers that you got a nice flight crew that would look the other way as you refused to let the baggage crew jump up and down on your favorite possession. Well hopefully we will never have to do that again.
Read More...Welcome back to the Dead Horse’s Dig Sessions. This installment features our heroes performing an original tune I Will Walk. Now if you have watched their previous Dig Session you know that I was alluding to some VERY good flat-picking in a future session. Well, the future is now.
Read More...I spent my Sunday morning looking for the perfect video to kick off the week. I have settled on Jimi playing 12 String Blues on an acoustic 12 string guitar. I am memorized watching Jimi. Not just playing music, but doing anything. It must have something to do with him being dead before I was born.
Read More...Oh man, I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day. I actually really like this song. With Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson you can’t go wrong. I sang this song all the way through the morning. When lunch finally rolled around I sprinted to my computer, got on YouTube and found the video. With coffee in hand I hit play.
Read More...Doc Watson and Clarence “Frog” Greene playing in the streets of Boone, NC in the 1950’s. This feature was at one point my favorite on Those Who Dig. I’m going to do my best to keep them coming and revive it. Hope you all enjoy!
Read More...I’m hoping by now you’ve read Ivan’s great post about the history and importance of flatpicking. Though a seasoned musician, it’s a relatively new topic to me and one I’ve been looking at a lot lately. Recently, while hoping to improve my acoustic and bluegrass guitar soloing chops, I searched around for some tips on scales and chord shapes to use. In doing so, I found such a travesty of misguided music theory and wildly unmusical thinking, I just had to share.
Read More...It’s been awhile since we’ve had a Weekly Roundup. This one is different than installments past since I’m working through a huge backlog, but the spirit remains the same: it’s a set of songs and videos I like that I want to share with you. Let’s do it.
Read More...I woke up this morning with Bad Self Portraits stuck in my head. Upon arriving at work the first things I saw when I turned on my computer was a Rolling Stone article with a new Lake Street Dive video of Bad Self Portraits. I’m pretty easy to please so I called this a Valentine’s Day miracle, and thought I’d share it with Dig Nation.
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I have a problem when discovering new music, and I know I can’t be the only one. It’s somewhat traumatizing, sometimes embarrassing, and ultimately disappointing. Does anybody else out there suffer from Outlier Syndrome – liking the first tune you hear from a band then realizing none of their other songs sound like that? If so, please read on. If not, it’s because I just made it up right now, but please read on anyway. Read more…
Flatpicking can be an elusive term. For guitarists or bluegrass fans, the definition is distinct, but the style is still difficult to describe. The variables are as unique as the ethnicities and the persons who developed it.
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