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Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White some Delta blues and unusual guitar percussion

Keep Your Big Mouth Shut - Bull Moose Jackson

Sounds like an interesting but PITA day. I do hope you are disease-free. Notes

Coming Home Baby - Herbie Mann

Something - The Beatles I like the guitar solo. Melodic and nice subtle timing and expressive ornaments.

Jorge Santana just died so as a remembrance of his most successful song here is: Suavecito - Malo It's a nice song. I understand he also did a lot of session work with the Fania All Stars

I'm content at home, although I'd much rather be working. Leilani and I get along so well together it's like a vacation. Plus my house is on a half acre on a dead-end street with only 9 families living on it. Walking to the end and back 5 times is a mile so I can get my exercise in (3 to 4mi/day) and keep my distance from others. Since we are a duo together, we can play all we like at home, although it isn't the same without an audience. We haven't been bored yet. We're also working on new add-on products to Band-in-a-Box. It's time consuming, sometimes frustrating, but like a good puzzle, when we overcome some of the built-in limitations of the BiaB app and make it do something musical that it wasn't designed to do, we get a sense of accomplishment. It looks like it will be isolating this way for at least a couple of months more. The less I mix with other people, the lower my odds of getting COVID are. My brother-in-law is a world famous doctor among other doctors and he says I don't want to get this disease. Even among those show no symptoms many have damage to their lungs, brain, heart, and/or kidneys. The damage may take years to heal at a minimum or may not heal at all. I make my living with my lungs and brain, and I'm rather fond of my heart and kidneys too, so I don't want any damage. Time is our only currency, we aim to spend it enjoyably. Bob

Band Of Gold - Freda Payne

The Breeze And I - Catarina Valente - it is based on Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona IMO the intro is the best part of Catarina's version.

My brother-in-law is a world famous doctor to other doctors. He says you don't want to catch this disease. It damages everybody it touches, even the asymptomatic.

I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters this one is as soft as a feather

They're Red Hot - Robert Johnson Because sometimes I need a little delta blues - this one is the least covered RJ song as far as I can tell,

OK, I think I need to get back to earth, and quit drinking so much: Black Coffee - k.d.lang (what a voice!)

Please Come To Boston - David Allen Coe

I Return To Music - Mark Murphy

One Minute Movies - The Residents

Thanks Starise, Fortunately, Leilani and I have the good sense to live below our means. The mortgage is paid off, and other than low car payments, we have zero debt. We also have a savings account and Social Security. We can exist on the social security so we're living close to the bone so as not to drain the savings any more than we have to. When I was young I blew all my money, but as I got to my mid 30s I decided that I needed to live below my means and put a buffer away where it isn't easy for me to get to. I got my stimulus check today, it goes in the bank tomorrow. I have no regrets about being a career musician. I rode the good times when I was the opening act for major stars in concert and I'll ride the lean times too. I'm luckier than a lot. I know of other musicians, bar staff, and restaurant staff that live close to the bone already plus have rent payments. I'd love to help them out but I have to protect myself and my wife. In a way I'm better off than someone who has to work in a grocery store or meat packing plant where there is a high risk of getting COVID (counting my blessings here). I'm thinking about some other ways to earn money in case the new normal won't support live music. Right now Leilani and I are working on some new aftermarket add-on products for Band-in-a-Box. Judging from past experience it'll take about a year to finish enough to make a nice release. The restaurant we've been playing once a week for 12 years and 2 owners wants us back in October if bands are allowed. Of course it's not a solid commitment but I'm sure if the business is recovering, we'll be back. We have a big following there, the only catch is they are winter residents and Canadian visitors. COVID will determine if that happens or not. Leilani and I have been in this duo since 1985 and it's really weird not to be gigging for so many weeks. It's our second favorite thing to do. :D For those of you working, I hope you all stay healthy. Insights and incites by Notes

Popity Pop - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (Popity Pop go the MOTORcycles) Some nice scat singing in this one

"Constantinople" - The Residents Very unusual group.

Pragi, you, Wibbles, Craig and others have all introduced me to songs and artists I never would have heard before. I'm really enjoying that. I've even gone and purchased some and added it to my digital Walkman. I've played rock/pop for a living all my life. I played classical in school and jazz in the extra-curricular jazz band after school. Rock on the weekends for money and chicks. My mom liked Broadway and my dad was really fond of Big Band Jazz and pre-Nashville era country (Eddie Arnold, Jim Reeves, etc.). After high school I got in a road band and the other musicians introduced me to blues (Bobby Bland, Robert Johnson, etc.) and I used to go to record/CD stores and pick out things from racks I was not familiar with like Klezmer. When I took a job on a cruise ship for 3 years I learned about Salsa, Ska, Soca and Reggae from the musicians who play those forms of music. There is so much out there I can't be confined to one type. I like playing different styles too, but to make a living, I play what the public wants to hear - and I like that as well. I prefer Classical from Beethoven to the present, but not all of it, mostly the dark, brooding, exciting kind. What I like about it is on the thousandth listening I can still hear a variation of a motif or a combination of one or more others that I never heard before. I can't memorize every instrument part from start to finish like I can on more pop/rock/country/blues tracks. On the other hand, my digital-walkman still has Muddy Waters, Zeppelin, Elvis, Andrews Sisters, Lyle Lovett, and the top 40 songs I grew up with on it. Here is one from my youth. Vanilla Fudge doing a take on an even older Motown song. Hearing this again is like visiting an old friend You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge

Thanks 57Gregy

D.O.A. - Bloodrock

I'd never get past security. But with all the performers who refuse to play for the president, I might have a chance at that.

Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed

I read that Wes started playing that way so he wouldn't wake his wife while practicing. When he became successful, he tried to change his picking style to a pick or fingerpicking, but taking so many steps back to learn a new technique made that prohibitive - I certainly understand that. Wes was a great guitarist. Prokofiev made that "iron and steel" symphony (#2) in my last post, but he was quite versatile. His symphony #2 was as different as night to day. I generally don't care for Ormandy's conducting of Romantic or Modern 'classical' works, but I think he does this one justice, probably because Prokofiev wrote what he though Hayden would write in the 20th century. Symphony #1 - Sergey Prokofiev - Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra I couldn't get it to embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A23QstVCIM