I just love Western Swing guitar playing, it's hot and jazz-informed but always with a hint of a wry smile. A lot of Western Swing is humorous music and I enjoy that lightheartedness combined with killer guitar soloing. This song is my own composition and is a take on that style. The batch of videos that came from this lot leave a lot to be desired as regards tone quality but I'm working on it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWy51o0GnZ8
"The Christmas Song" is a classic, well, Christmas song, written in 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written in July during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to 'stay cool by thinking cool,' the most-performed Christmas song was born. "I saw a spiral pad on Wells' piano with four lines written in pencil," Tormé recalled. "They started, 'Chestnuts roasting; Jack Frost nipping; Yuletide carols; Folks dressed up like Eskimos." Bob didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics."
An 8 bar blues progression that had to be shortened to 8 because my looper, at the time, didn't have the space to store anything larger.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwA8W2ucyNo
An original piece in the 'western swing' style. There's some wind noise, so pardon that. And...here you go, Rocco! :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-yigPEauI8
I'm going to keep collecting this kind of thing as I see it. Get a YouTube downloader and re-upload videos of this nature to your channel. The truth isn't 'out there' anymore. It's right in everyone's face! The big boys are going to fail miserably.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFLKl9JjH-c
Also known as writer's block, this is a common phenomenon for people involved in the creative arts. Do notice though, that this is common only to a situation whereby a person has the free time to create under no sense of urgency. What I mean here is that in the performing arts--theater, live music, live performance in general--an artist doesn't have the luxury to be so blocked that they cannot perform. In a word, the show must go on. That right there might give you a little hint about the so-called writer's block phenomenon.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWjx8hKRc0