The Hard Way

Becoming a Method Actor in a relationship and not showing how you truly feel

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The Method

Hesitation Blues may have been the first twelve-bar blues to be known across the US South, circulating in oral tradition for years – perhaps decades – before it was written down, mostly in versions that were far too dirty to be printed or recorded. Robert Winslow Gordon and Hubert Canfield both collected multiple versions in the 1920s, and Jelly Roll Morton recalled one for Alan Lomax that he’d apparently heard in New Orleans around the turn of the century. 

The Hesitation Blues has since been cleaned up and done by various artists in every genera. However it originated in burlesque and other more phonographic musical forms of the underworld preformed for patrons in juke joints, brothels and speak-easy clubs by early bluesmen. Most versions seem to have included verses in the same basic pattern:

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I ain’t no butcher, no butcher’s son,
But I can cut your meat until the butcher comes.

I ain’t no milkman, no milkman’s son,
But I can pull your titties till the milkman comes.

I ain’t no sergeant, no sergeant’s son,
But I can handle your privates till the sergeant comes…

…and so on, as well as such straightforwardly descriptive verses as, from Canfield’s collection:

A fist full of teats, and a mouth full of tongue,
Takes a long peckered daddy to make his baby come.

Only the BEST for you all! 
Saturday Satan Sunday Saint JT

Hesitation Standard Blues

Hesitation Standard Blues - Solo Guitar Instrumental Bluesman (Century of Progress)

An overdubbed guitar duet recording that I made (around 1999)
This is a cover of a composition by Jimmy Rowles
Inspired by legend John McLaughlin
Photograph by Joshua Lasky

The Peacocks

How You Feel

In My Life

Empty Spaces

Improvisation in online session (Yamaha Syncroom)

Enjoy!!

New!!! Kogarashi 5 : -Improvisation with Sora san(Pf) and BP(Vn)

"We march to the beat of a party line snare / and nothing gets done except harm."

Demos (22-23)

Sticks & Stones

have yourself a merry little christmas

jazz is for ordinary people

Guitar as a means of meditation; songwriting as one of several creative outlets. 

Christian, husband & father.

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All songs multi-tracked using Sony Acid Music (both 6 & 10), using a variety of recorded sources. Recorded at home with an open mic, producing lots of ambient sounds from a very busy house full of teenagers & pets.

All images and art by Charles Whalen.

The Hard Way

Charlie Whalen

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