Name: Joe B by NothinButDaBlues
Duration: 3 min
Description: A custom designed bluesy lead cover, with lots of vintage warmth for a superb John Mayer track "New Light". Hope you fall under its spell...

Lovely piece 😍 💐 🙏 🍀 🎶 🎧 

Nice and personal guitar sound on each track.. certainly the blues 😉👏🎈

Man it is GREAT to hear you again!!!!!!!!! This is pure class ,,,,2:22 love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Tony. Beautiful blues !!!!!!!!  

very impressed by the guitar playing, so groovy. My daughter is a Joe B 's fan, i understand why ;o)

Didn't really have the energy to finish this properly, but heres a weird ambient song. 

Lyrics:
It creeps in, through your veins
Your colours, turned grey

Oh, let me lay my head down for a while
My head dances like light on a wave
Now you're away

Drag me down below the waves,
Your current sweeps me away

Below the Waves

The video here: https://youtu.be/TpQLhTjNzow
Audio: https://apple.co/38qa6Fk

Can't explain

A custom designed bluesy lead cover, with lots of vintage warmth for a superb John Mayer track "New Light". Hope you fall under its spell...

2018

Joe B

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: COMPOSED AND PLAYED BY DS. 

PRELUDE: here introducing the main theme which will be heavily used in a much longer and more complex follow-up piece. RECORDED: audio-in handplayed, using two brand new Yamaha and Roland keyboards.

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: It will be an agnostic kind of suite, in the sense that it follows no particular rules in how to develop, it simply grows, fractal style, in its own way ... The 2nd part is to 95% ready, and is extensive. It will feature more guitar work, and have more ebbs and flow. It has a bit of a different dynamics and the 'Prelude' didn't integrate well when inserted there - let's use it like this, as a teaser for the real work ;)

The inspiration came from some perfect days in the north; bright, ice-cold winter landscapes, with fine layers of snow falling, the sun still shining through ...

DS 10th January 2020.

Update December 2020: a 20-minute PART II is in the making and likely to be released early next year... polishing some transitions...

Update April 2021: As it happens, it took me more than 2 years to complete the 25 minute long Zummer Znowflakes.... 

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(To the SC IT staff: why do your Artificial-Idiot Engine play country-music with lyrics directly after my Prelude? There are not exactly lots of similarities? Any monkey would make a better guess)

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: PRELUDE

Signal Is Lost is a song written and recorded by Kinetic Octopus in Brooklyn, New York.

Signal Is Lost

Tropic 🌙. Heat. 🗣 Braunmusic

Throughout the devastation, a shimmer of light. The church always seemed so dark with the hanging moss shading all around. Edmund knew it was time to run  far away from this whirlwind. The night was warm and the symphony of insects and frogs echoed across the swamp.  The heartbeat rhythm of this was solace through the fear. With a small backpack and some vague calling from dreams that never stop, Edmund was finally getting away from the Hell on earth.

Postcards and Picture Frames

Let me take you on a journey that lifts you above the clouds where your mood never  falls below total joy. I'll take you take you to the limit just wait and see.

I'll Take You

Golly Gee Whizz is intended as a thank you to those who have supported The Affectionate Punch.  The e.p. is available as a free download only: https://theaffectionatepunch.bandcamp.com/album/golly-gee-whizz-2

1. Misery Kid - lyrics below
2. Hostages
3. It's Not a Matter of Life or Death
4. Wildfire Skies

Misery Kid was inspired by, and was recorded for, Jonas.
Wildfire Skies was inspired by Marshmallow Fortresses - from whom the title originates.

Indebted to:  Anna & Tommy and Alice & John, without whom ...

Particular thanks:  G, CZ, MF, JC, Fabrizio and Amanda Sanderson.

All songs are DIY recordings dating from April 2020 to September 2020.

Lost in the summer, lost in the rain
Lost in my thoughts of happier days
Lost in a smile that hides an embrace
Lost for words, what can I say …

Misery Kid

Lost forever, lost in the rain
Lost for a moment and back again
Lost is a smile I haven’t seen in awhile
Lost for words, and so I say …

Misery Kid

Golly Gee Whizz

Misery Kid

Unknown album (12/20/2020 12:55:57 PM)

Discovering light

CANAGLIA [SCHERZO]

"To my mind, a BLUES doesn't have to be a 12-bar progression. To me, if a song has the right emotion then I accept it as BLUES" - PETER GREEN

"I go by feel, I go by feel. 
The only way I know what's real" - BUDDY GUY

Mostly, as a self-taught guitar player (maybe not... considering all the influences and internet/book resources I've come across lately!)  and rather than trying to be anything remotely near a good player of any great technique, I'm not bound by genre or clichés; I just like to go for it. It's a whole lot better that way. 
Blues is a human expression of emotion. That may explain why I felt called to blues music, even though, I grew up in Europe, a continent apart from the music’s heartlands in America’s Deep South. And that may also be the reason for the great Portuguese Bluesmen we have nowadays (The Legendary Tigerman/Frankie Chavez/Budda Power Blues/Rui Veloso/Dead Combo/The Black Mamba/Mazgani and many others...)

I’m a fan of raw guitar players who aren’t really polished… you’re not sure if it’s all going to fall apart.  Those who, rather than trotting out a collection of preconceived practised licks and lines, take some chances along the way, creating ideas on the spot. IMHO they sound more exciting and impressive for it. I play whatever comes into my head. It's an adventure because when I do a breakdown or a solo, it's new each time and I just let it go... The majority are first take. I just turn it on and press record...they are mostly one moment in time. I’m always looking for something. Sometimes I’m not quite sure what, but you just have to keep looking...
The real beauty is playing without thinking and once you have some concepts down, what comes out, is from the heart.  It's second nature. 
I just enjoy listening and playing some music, in honour of that timeless way of killing time (just for the fun of it...and whenever inspired: "If you're not feeling it, don't play it!"). I'm happiest picking out a blues tune to a suitable backing track. After all, simple music is the hardest to play...
For me, half the battle is to get the right sound. And that, in turn, inspires how you play.
As a tone fiend, I like to let those bluesy guitar tones breathe a little bit. But, almost everything I play, it never, ever comes out quite the way I heard it in my head. Sometimes I end up with something that's kind of close, but it's not quite what intended originally. These uploaded tracks are no exception... They are far from being perfect. First of all, I'm not a fan of perfection when it comes to music...it may even compromise the tone, but if the tone is there, great! It sounds like a human being playing guitar. 
As Dan Patlansky once said "I would rather hear an average player with a great guitar tone than a great player with a bad tone".
 I love stuff that sounds like a spontaneous real-life experience. Playing music is a human activity, and we humans are far from perfect! There is a certain charm in something that feels human with the flow of a spontaneous performance. It's that spontaneity that makes for the magic... 
Feel free to comment good, bad or indifferent and do not hesitate to share any ideas you might have. 

Favourite guitarists (old school suspects apart):
Matt Schofield;  Jim Campilongo;  Walter Trout; Robin Trower; Joe Bonamassa; Andy Timmons; Gregor Hilden; Robben Ford; Larry Carlton (among others)...

Joe B

NothinButDaBlues

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