THE BLUES: MORE DIVERSE THAN YOU THINK

So I’m playing a blues gig in August. In prepping for the gig, I’ve been listening to and thinking about the blues a lot. Looking through the setlist I’ve been compiling over the last few days, I noticed how diverse the blues can be.

The most frequent knock on the blues is that “It’s all the same.” Read more »

GET YOUR DRONE ON

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When I was studying South Indian classical music in college, one of my TAs distributed a recording of an Indian drone to use for practicing vocal exercises.

That drone became useful in many ways. Read more »