TJs Acoustic Music Club - Thursday 21st of May

Bob-Dubery

Venue: Marks Park sports club, Judith Road, Emmarentia.
Time: Music starts at 20:00
Admission: R20

Line up includes

Keira Witherkay
Mike Burger & Richard Bruyns (yes... a real live lap steel guitarist in Jo'burg)
Mike Rowe

Grub and drinks available.

Keira-WitherKay

hello all, i was invited to play my 1st TJ's gig last night...and had a fabulous time.... awesome big stage and some great acoustic musicians on the bill....the ry cooder style lap guitar and acoustic duo were fabulous ...in fact i enjoyed everyone... and i'm not just saying that ..... i'm a harsh critic.... but every act was different but in my mind deserving of the stage time....

of course Bob was there and i got to see Bob's new smoothtalker.... pity Bob was not performing last night so never go to hear it plugged in....

yeah a great gig if you into high quality acoustic music.... and one where the audience sits quietly while you perform, it's more of a recital than a pub/club/restaurant venue type gig ... which is great .....

well seems i passed the audition hehehheheh ....and have been invited back for another set on 18th June ....but to be confirmed....

so support TJ's well worth it if you into soft acoustic music .....

peace and light
Keira

Bob-Dubery

Keira WitherKay wrote: hello all, i was invited to play my 1st TJ's gig last night...and had a fabulous time.... awesome big stage and some great acoustic musicians on the bill....the ry cooder style lap guitar and acoustic duo were fabulous ...in fact i enjoyed everyone... and i'm not just saying that ..... i'm a harsh critic.... but every act was different but in my mind deserving of the stage time....

It was a very strong bill I thought - and with good variety. Keira is modestly not mentioning the opening act - herself. She got the evening off to a strong start and set the bar high.

Interested to see you liken Richard Bruyn's playing to Ry Cooder, what came to my mind was Peter Green. Who, as far as I know, was not a lap steel player or even played a lot of slide guitar, but to my ears there were definitely echoes of his sound in Richard's playing.

Keira-WitherKay

Bob Dubery wrote:
Keira WitherKay wrote: hello all, i was invited to play my 1st TJ's gig last night...and had a fabulous time.... awesome big stage and some great acoustic musicians on the bill....the ry cooder style lap guitar and acoustic duo were fabulous ...in fact i enjoyed everyone... and i'm not just saying that ..... i'm a harsh critic.... but every act was different but in my mind deserving of the stage time....

It was a very strong bill I thought - and with good variety. Keira is modestly not mentioning the opening act - herself. She got the evening off to a strong start and set the bar high.

Interested to see you liken Richard Bruyn's playing to Ry Cooder, what came to my mind was Peter Green. Who, as far as I know, was not a lap steel player or even played a lot of slide guitar, but to my ears there were definitely echoes of his sound in Richard's playing.

lol Bob maybe the world musician in me i was having thoughts of how a sitar would have mixed in with their sound....then it definietly woulda been ry cooder.....what was that album called he did with the indian influences.......something about down at the river ....awesome but yeah i definitely think ry cooder.... heheh

Bob-Dubery

Keira WitherKay wrote:
lol Bob maybe the world musician in me i was having thoughts of how a sitar would have mixed in with their sound....then it definietly woulda been ry cooder.....what was that album called he did with the indian influences.......something about down at the river ....awesome but yeah i definitely think ry cooder.... heheh

Interesting comments. Because Richard has been thinking about working some Indian sounds into his playing.

Also if you get a copy of his CD you will here him tackling a lot of different styles. Quite cool because he takes the lap steel out of it's "comfort zone" of Hawaiian and country sounds and tackles some different things.

Can't help you with the name of that Cooder album. I admire his work and have some discs, but I'm not that au fait with his body of work.

Keira-WitherKay

i know we don't hear much of that style of music here in good old SA .... but a lot os asian bands use acoustic and sitars and well a kind of lap steel and get some awesome results hehhehe

so yeah a natural progression for richard would be the indian influence of tabla percussion and sitar

the ry cooder album was "A meeting by the river " here's a short write up ...from google hehehh

Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or imitated. --Louis Gibson

yeah great album.....

peace and light
Keira

ps... thats true musicians at work when an unehearsed jam session is recorded and wins a grammy heheheh not a bad nights work....

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Twice in a row now

AY :'(