An instrumental version of the blues classic Sky is Crying, made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughn.  My first work with Justin, who has been an inspiration and is truly a world class blues guitar player.  Fun to post today on Justin's birthday.   Check out @justin-valente to hear more of his special blues 

Guitars and Bass:  Justin Valente (@Justin-Valente)
Organ:  Jamie Rhind
Drums:  Blues Drums Vol.1 from the Loop Loft

Sky is Crying - with Justin Valente / guitar and bass

Iam interested in music, mainly for yoga,massage and meditation.  Iam lucky enough to have collaborated with several musicians, setting my voice and words to amazing sounds.

I've been playing guitar with varying degrees of devotion for about 30 years. I love to play and record every chance I get and have really enjoyed my time on SC so far.  My musical influences are guitar greats such as Hendrix, SRV, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman, Robben Ford, Mike Bloomfield, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. I love listening to other people's music and drawing inspiration from their talents.  Most of all I appreciate all of the support from the community here and look forward to spending a lot more time. :)

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.

If you like what's on offer here, my tracks can be downloaded on my website, gerrysongs.net.  Drop me an email if you can't find a particular song.  I was born in 1954 and learnt to play guitar during the 60s blues boom.  I used to be a total blues nut but I've mellowed to the point where I can appreciate other music of black origin.  My favourite guitar players are Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher and Pete Haycock from the Climax Blues Band (the most under rated band of all time) but I have listened to an awful lot of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Green and of course BB King.  Favourite singers would include Sam Cooke, Bill Withers and Ray Charles.  For the girls, let's have Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan.  Songwriters, Paul Simon and Carole King, not forgetting Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.  I started writing songs as soon as I had the basic chords down and joined a band so that I could sneak some of my compositions into their repertoire.  There were many bands and I occasionally managed to persuade some of them to record, but that used to run expensive.  Nowadays, with modern home recording equipment, I'm working through my whole back catalogue.  I play as many of the instruments as I can myself and it's a lot of fun.  Discovering Soundcloud has been really great; listening to other people's music is inspirational and energising.  Thankyou to everyone who has taken the time to listen to my efforts and mega thanks to anybody who clicked on "like".  Words cannot express how wonderful it is for me to see those little hearts.