Black Mountain Blues

This is a little fingerstyle blues thing I've been working on for a while, indebted to Mississippi John Hurt and a little bit of John Fahey.

For my dad who isn't feeling so great right now.

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posted by gorbichov (13 comments total)

This is lovely.
posted by this is a thing at 1:55 PM on January 20, 2014

thanks! the inspiration for the piece came from Spike Driver Blues, although I've definitely abstracted and changed/added stuff. And my right hand isn't nearly as good :)
posted by gorbichov at 5:51 PM on January 20, 2014

Like it a lot!
posted by grog at 5:28 PM on January 22, 2014

Really nice! Your fingerstyle is tight, and the guitar sounds beautiful. Roll of the lows a little and put a gentle room 'verb on this and it would be studio-quality.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:09 AM on January 23, 2014

I don't come to Music very often, but today I did and I really like this song a lot. Sounds great. Thank you.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:12 AM on January 23, 2014

Nice! Thanks.
posted by ecorrocio at 10:02 AM on January 23, 2014

thanks all! and grumpybear69, thanks for the recording feedback. I have a relatively new setup at home that I'm still sorting out - I'll try your suggestions out, for sure. And thankfully, my dad is doing better now too :)
posted by gorbichov at 5:47 PM on January 23, 2014

Beautifully played! Nice and gentle recording.
posted by edlundart at 12:25 AM on January 25, 2014

Before I hit play I knew this was going to be good. I wasn't wrong.
Beautiful.
posted by we are the music makers at 8:12 PM on January 25, 2014

aww, thanks WATMM :) - glad you like it.
posted by gorbichov at 7:22 PM on January 26, 2014

So lovely.
posted by billiebee at 4:39 AM on January 27, 2014

cheers, bb! ;)
posted by gorbichov at 3:04 PM on January 27, 2014

I wish I could do something like that for my dad as well... Cheers!
posted by mcajoo at 3:18 AM on February 15, 2014