Sunday, August 30, 2020
Pickers
So posting is going to be even more infrequent than it has been. Not only does it seem like I will continue to be working a lot of overtime for the foreseeable future, I have started taking guitar lessons, something I have been promising myself I would do for years now, but my anti-depressants were never working well enough for me to actually follow through. Until now. (thank you, Abilify!) Anyway, I took guitar lessons briefly when I was around 12 years old but I never krpt up with them, and I'm trying to re-start from scratch (the Carter Scratch that is. Ha! See what I did there?)Anyway, I signed up with the Frank Hamilton School of Folk Music right here in Decatur, GA. (If you're not familiar with Frank Hamilton - and I wasn't until recently - He is a guy who has lived a pretty interesting life. He traveled the country with Pete Seeger, taught Roger McGuinn how to play guitar and toured with Rambli' Jack Elliot among other notable acheivements. You can check out his bio here: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-hamilton-mn0000794028/biography
Anyway, on that note, I thought I would present a brief collection of some of my favorite guitar pickers and folks I would like to emulate. Here in no particular order.
It's exciting that you're taking guitar lessons! Good luck with them and have fun! Blogger's loss will be the music world's gain!
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DeleteIt sounds like you found an excellent teacher. I remember listening to a most of these artists when I was learning to play. Elizabeth Cotten was a particular favorite. It's been such a long time, maybe I should pull the old guitar out of the closet.
ReplyDeleteSome awesome pickers in that list. Enjoy every minute of learning, practicing and playing. All the best. But do show up on the blog periodically, please.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna try.
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