Friday, September 19, 2008

Prepping for the Festival

Over the last month, I've logged a lot of hours getting ready for this year's Deep Blue Innovators Blues Festival. I always have a feeling I've forgotten something, but I've gotten posters out, got the tickets out to local businesses, recruited the logistics team, have the web advertising set up, booked the rooms for the artists... I think that's it for now.

I'm getting psyched, because I can start to hear the flow of the music from one artist to the next in my head, and I think it'll be another magical day. Of course, I always get psycho-nervous before the show, but I think we've got a great show simmering here.

Now if I can only remember what I've forgotten!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Cool, Vicious Little Guitar


Last weekend, I had the pleasure to spend the evening with another "blues wanderer." We swapped some stories and jammed together. I think I got the most out of it, because I'm not all that used to jamming with other folks. I think that's something I really need to do more of, especially to help my timing.

One thing that caught my imagination was his parlor sized Framus acoustic guitar. It's an older guitar manufactured in Germany and he had it set up to play slide. The tone and sound was raw (yet gentle) with a surprising amount of volume.

I did a little digging and found a photo of a guitar that' very similar, and it was referred to as a "Telles"... I checked on the Framus site and they have a great vintage online museum, but I couldn't find that exact guitar, but their "Wanderer" series seemed to be the closest match. You can see that page here.