Ronnie earl deep blues rar professional#

Ronnie earl deep blues rar professional#

Earl didnвЂ™t start playing until he was a sophomore at Boston University, where he studied special education, a career path he explored for a short time before becoming a professional musician.Д®arlвЂ™s first steady gig was as the house rhythm guitarist at the Speakeasy, a blues bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he played with Otis Rush and other touring heavyweights. Though he had an early interest in music-he briefly had piano lessons and his father took him to Manhattan to hear jazz greats like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus-he was a relative latecomer to guitar. IвЂ™m a bluesman through and through,вЂќ adding that the teacher was showing him more general approaches to the guitar and ways of thinking about the fretboard.Д®arl, whose birth name is Ronald Horvath, grew up in Queens, New York, in the 1950s and вЂ™60s. I wondered aloud if Earl was learning to play in this style, which would be quite a departure for him.

You wouldnвЂ™t think there is anything Earl needs to be taught on the guitar.Д«ut when we later connected, Earl explained that heвЂ™d been exchanging lessons with a rockabilly guitarist-one of the best players heвЂ™d ever heard-whom heвЂ™d met at a music store in Massachusetts. This came as a surprise: Earl, who is 66, is one of the greatest living blues musicians-a four-time winner of the Blues Music Award for Guitar Player of the Year, who has shared the stage with legendary players like B.B. Treat yourself to a reminder of what music can do for us - this is special.When I telephoned Ronnie Earl for our scheduled interview, he asked if he could call me back shortly, because he was with his guitar teacher. If ever music could communicate such feelings, I think this album does. Earl has been though some tough times with addiction and this album represents a cleansing and a new found appreciation for life. As an earlier reviewer said, I also give this a gift to people - as Earl seems to have given us this music as a reminder of how special life can be, and it seems appropriate to pass this on. I find that everyone I play this album to has the same reaction - 'what is that? - it's beautiful' -especially people who think they do not like jazz. In fact it is the exact opposite - being soulful and engaging. I play guitar so I really love listening to Earl's delicate touch, but this is not an album for muso's where competence replaces emotion.

When I play this cd I just get drawn in and find myself grooving silently with it. This is an album of instrumentals, and as the title suggests, it has a relaxed atmosphere that demands deep engagement with the listener. Mellow, moody, and moving, Earl is the star but he allows plenty of space for sax and keyboards to take center stage in turn. This album represents a wonderful blending of blues and jazz, with superb musicianship and a great production. Life affirming, July 18, 2000Reviewer: 'julian38'

An excellent, low-investment primer for the neophyte Jeff Beck fan who may be curious about his younger days.

Beck achieved an impressive growth spurt in the four-year period represented here wisely dropping Stewart to concede the Power Trio + Preening Big Hair Vocalist Contest to former Yardbird bandmate Jimmy Page, and moving on to explore more innovative guitar territory (which later became known as 'fusion'). Concentrating on the post-Yardbirds to pre-Jan Hammer stretch of Beck's career ('68-'72), the CD mixes some rousing numbers from his heavy metal period (the 'Truth' and 'Beck-Ola' albums featuring rooster-crowned Rod Stewart on vocals) with some of his slightly more jazzy-progressive forays on the two Jeff Beck Group LP's (self-titled and 'Rough & Ready'). While it is by no means definitive, this budget-line compilation does deliver a well-selected assortment of Jeff Beck gems at a low list price. A nice peck of Beck for a small kopek, August 28, 2001