Voodoosound
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My favorite album for the last 3 years. A virtual unknown in the states like so many really great players.
Post some inspiring music!
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My favorite album for the last 3 years. A virtual unknown in the states like so many really great players.
Voodoosound
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My other favorite album since 2013. Of course Al is my favorite player for about 30 years now.
Voodoosound
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This is the kind of stuff that mostly inspires and influences my music style. I just can’t get enough of it. There’s a whole universe of this type of music out there. It’s really really good.
Anje
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Rob @Voodoosound , btw talking about Al, have you seen that recent concert he did on top of the Vesuvio volcano?
That must have been an experience, would have loved to be there:
That must have been an experience, would have loved to be there:
Anje
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DIdn't know him, great discovery; thanks again for sharing.
Voodoosound
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I have never seen that. What an experience that would’ve been.
Barrowsmith
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A relatively simple player relative to some of the virtuoso's shared, but Duke Levine might be might favorite guitarist. He tours with Bonnie Raitt right now.
This is fantastic. Love the chill vibe of this music.
hadn't heard this one before. this is excellent. Steve Perry's voice to me is exactly how I want my guitar to sound. I have taken particular inspiration from his voice, Colin Hay, Steve Winwood, and a few others. Their singing tone embodies all great tones. Perry's voice sounds like a fantastic sounding saxophone to me.
Voodoosound
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Speaking of great vocals and stories. This one has it all. A very recent discovery for me. I’ve always loved Traffic and I think Steve Winwood is severely underrated. He does it all and exceptionally well.
This and that other Steve Winwood song you sent me the other day are just great.
Anje
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I love the saxophone analogy, and love that instrument; actually kind of hesitated to start learning/playing the sax before picking up guitar if I remember correctly (at least I clearly remember trying to play a friend's sax back in early teens years). This instrument in particular always had a "singing with grain/texture" quality as I would call it.
Steve's voice clearly has that, like a natural beautiful light crunch/overdrive built in that he seemed to pull effortlessly on the right parts. Freddy Mercury is another who comes to mind that I would describe as such.
Talking about the Sax, here are a couple of the main songs that must have started my love for that sound at an early age and I always think of when talking about that instrument:
... the whole album is full of it actually
one of the very best Live albums of all time to me btw. When Mark & the boys were at the top of the world.And of course, there's that one too:
Voodoosound
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Voodoosound
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Original version with all instruments
Anje
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Talking about great singers / songwriters, "pushing" it a little further: I was posting before about the beauty of a great guitar player being able to captivate an audience alone with an acoustic guitar, I thought same could be said about singers and acapella performances.
Here's to me one of the most "goosebumping" examples I can think of, just a couple of (3) great voices, singing beautiful lyrics, melodies and harmonies:
Love that short version from the On an Island tour; gives me chills every single time when the harmonies kick in.
Here's to me one of the most "goosebumping" examples I can think of, just a couple of (3) great voices, singing beautiful lyrics, melodies and harmonies:
Love that short version from the On an Island tour; gives me chills every single time when the harmonies kick in.
